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		zorked on Aug 29, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tor usage doubles in under a week, and no one know... Interesting, similar jumps happened in every country I tried: Brazil, Vietnam, US, Argentina, South Africa. I can't imaging the Pirate Browser thing would be immediately so popular across so many different cultures, even in countries without net censorship.

mattkirman on Aug 29, 2013 [–]

Maybe a botnet has started using Tor for connecting to a central command server? Might help explain a doubling of nodes but minimal traffic increase.

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