Re: [tor-talk] Italy - third highest number users

2012-09-24 Thread Paolo Palmieri
Il 21/09/2012 05:55, miniBill ha scritto: > Unfortunately some ISPs intercept everything that passes through port 53 > udp... By intercept you mean tamper? Do they actually go and modify the replies you get when querying external DNS servers? If it's true it would seem pretty serious to me. Can y

Re: [tor-talk] Italy - third highest number users

2012-09-21 Thread Jan Reister
Il 20/09/2012 11:05, vecna [ml] ha scritto: > I'm not sure the Tor usage in Italy would be reduced as a censorship > bypassing technology. As a resident in Italy, my guess is that Tor is used here mainly as a circumvention tool. > you start to found free press in the underground station talking >

Re: [tor-talk] Italy - third highest number users

2012-09-20 Thread miniBill
Unfortunately some ISPs intercept everything that passes through port 53 udp... Il giorno 19/set/2012 21:42, "Paolo Palmieri" ha scritto: > > Somehow in August, Italy got a few thousand additional Tor users and > > became third as far as usage of Tor: > > [...] > > Any insight? > > A major local

Re: [tor-talk] Italy - third highest number users

2012-09-20 Thread HardKor
Should be intresting to compare the evolution of the number of Tor clients with the evolution of the number of Tor servers. HardKor On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:05 AM, vecna [ml] wrote: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) < > li...@infosecurity.ch> wrote: > > > On 9/19/12 9

Re: [tor-talk] Italy - third highest number users

2012-09-20 Thread vecna [ml]
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) < li...@infosecurity.ch> wrote: > On 9/19/12 9:41 PM, Paolo Palmieri wrote: > > It is also interesting to note that, after this, a sizable portion of > > Italian Internet users now uses a DNS other than the one supplied by > > their ISP, an

Re: [tor-talk] Italy - third highest number users

2012-09-19 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
On 9/19/12 9:41 PM, Paolo Palmieri wrote: > It is also interesting to note that, after this, a sizable portion of > Italian Internet users now uses a DNS other than the one supplied by > their ISP, and usually a foreign one. This reduces the impact any > further censorship imposed at the DNS level

Re: [tor-talk] Italy - third highest number users

2012-09-19 Thread Paolo Palmieri
> Somehow in August, Italy got a few thousand additional Tor users and > became third as far as usage of Tor: > [...] > Any insight? A major local filesharing website (hundreds of thousands active users) was blocked at the DNS level in the country around that time. Among the solutions to circumven

Re: [tor-talk] Italy - third highest number users

2012-09-19 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 10:00:33AM -0700, SiNA Rabbani wrote: > Somehow in August, Italy got a few thousand additional Tor users and > became third as far as usage of Tor: France and Spain show similar growth. We've seen some overall growth in total Tor user count too, perhaps due to the recent g

[tor-talk] Italy - third highest number users

2012-09-19 Thread SiNA Rabbani
Somehow in August, Italy got a few thousand additional Tor users and became third as far as usage of Tor: > https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html?graph=direct-users&country=it#direct-users > Country Mean daily users > United States 60769 (14.30 %) > Iran