> 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 circumvent the block proposed by the admins of the site through their twitter account was the usage of Tor. 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 might have. Paolo _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
