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Re:Australian police prosecute man for buying drugs via Tor ... by nwh on Thursday January 31, 2013 @06:31AM (#5144488)
Tor Metrics estimates around 5000 users within Australia, which means that there's probably a very good chance that he is not the only Tor user in his area.

https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html?graph=direct-users...

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Re:Australian police prosecute man for buying drugs via Tor ... by drcongo on Thursday January 31, 2013 @08:11AM (#5144756)
Australia is kinda big. 5000 users is ~593 square miles per Tor user.
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Re:Australian police prosecute man for buying drugs via Tor ... by jacques_chester on Thursday January 31, 2013 @08:53AM (#5144928)
The Australian population is heavily urbanised. Averaging the population over the landmass leads to silly conclusions.
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