>>4610 Interesting stuff anon, anyone hear any news that might explain why this might be happening? Looks like something started going on towards the end of May, maybe increased censorship by the Iranian government?
>>4613 Not OP but the last time I saw they were stocking Uranium. Maybe some journalists got there to cover this story and are opening Tor relays?
This wouldn't explain a increase of 29% though.
>This is me just speculating
Maybe systems infected with some sort of latent malware that only targets machines in Iran? Before a "hot" incident, they get activated and they turn into Tor nodes so foreign glowers in the country can exfiltrate intelligence for preemptive planning.
>>4615 Considering recent events, this is probably a Buttnet(TM) of US GOV, perhaps though, this could potentially be used to deanonymize tor users but I think they have safeguards against this.
https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-table.html?start=2019-06-01&end=2019-06-19
Iran 982925 (31.93 %)
Russia 399279 (12.97 %)
United States 397622 (12.92 %)
Germany 167448 (5.44 %)
France 130288 (4.23 %)
United Kingdom 75470 (2.45 %)
Ukraine 64393 (2.09 %)
Indonesia 64070 (2.08 %)
India 53115 (1.73 %)
Netherlands 52308 (1.70 %)
Compare to last month
Russia 380274 (18.35 %)
United States 379891 (18.33 %)
Germany 165657 (7.99 %)
France 110393 (5.33 %)
Indonesia 95484 (4.61 %)
United Kingdom 73322 (3.54 %)
Ukraine 68498 (3.30 %)
India 53256 (2.57 %)
Iran 52986 (2.56 %)
Netherlands 47673 (2.30 %)
https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-table.html?start=2019-05-01&end=2019-05-19