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Re:A Digital Rumor Should Never Lead to a Police Raid by nylsaar on Friday September 23, 2016 @12:14AM (#12562261)
Seems I remember a previous article estimating 1.5 million Tor exit nodes, but I may be wrong. And in another article from memory, active ip address estimates were in the 100's of billions maybe. My bet is most illicit activity from a perpetrator would go through Tor, but I wonder how many of the police raids are due to people being 'swatted'?
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Re:A Digital Rumor Should Never Lead to a Police Raid by nostalgiac on Friday September 23, 2016 @02:21AM (#12562691)
You shouldn't trust your memory...

There's only just under 4.3 Billion IPv4 addresses available. And you can write off a decent chunk of those as being not available for public use.

As of right now there are only 891 listed Tor Exit nodes.[1]

[1]https://www.dan.me.uk/tornodes

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Re:A Digital Rumor Should Never Lead to a Police Raid by nylsaar on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @03:02AM (#12595919)
When I include 'I may be wrong' in a comment, I'm not trusting my memory.

https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2012/06/06/internet-grows-by-tri...

I am indeed guilty of ignoring details when indifferent.

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