Tor usage doubles after Snowden's surveillance revelations

[Joe Shlabotnik]

Since Snowden came forward with details about the NSA's PRISM program in June, the number of global Tor users has doubled. Tor is a open source network by which users obscure their online activity by navigating a network of computer relays. In the U.S., the number of users has grown by more than 75 percent.

According to its own numbers, more than 1.2 million people now regularly connect to the Tor network to engage in online activities. That is up from just over 600,000 worldwide users in June of this year. Of those 600,000 new users, roughly ten percent are from the United States.

News of the user uptick was largely seen as a good thing on Reddit, where Tor supporters believe a larger number of users will mean more exit points in the system, making it harder to trace activity.

"This is good," wrote user dkcph. "Not only from a political viewpoint but also from a security viewpoint. The main security problems with TOR is the lack of users. We can only hope the number of exit nodes also increases."

More at: http://www.dailydot.com/politics/tor-usage-doubles-snowden-nsa-prism/

[ohheckyeah]

1. I'm surprised it isn't

a higher number of people using Tor.

[nebenaube]

3. suckers... it's occman's honeypot!

[jbond56]

4. Do you think most people understand what a honeypot is?

[nebenaube]

5. nope...