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Re:Tor: Directly connecting users from Turkey by arjie on Sunday March 23, 2014 @01:27AM (#7452264)
Drops every Sunday¹. Employees of companies are using Tor to bypass company site blocks.

¹ https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html?graph=userstats-re...

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Re:Tor: Directly connecting users from Turkey by 1ris on Sunday March 23, 2014 @07:13AM (#7452903)
No, I don't think so. Look at a bigger time frame:

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

There was a huge spike in Mid 2013, cause by a botnet that installed tor. Before there was almost not oscillation. After that there is quite a bit. I think there are many infected PCs at companies.

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Re:Tor: Directly connecting users from Turkey by keule on Sunday March 23, 2014 @08:56PM (#7456041)
Do you still got a reference to news/blogs about that botnet install?
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Re:Tor: Directly connecting users from Turkey by 1ris on Monday March 24, 2014 @03:32PM (#7460787)
There is something form the official tor blog. https://blog.torproject.org/blog/how-to-handle-millions-new-...
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Re:Tor: Directly connecting users from Turkey by arjie on Sunday March 23, 2014 @12:59PM (#7454023)
Nice. That sounds like a good explanation.
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