What EVER could be causing this? (Duh.)

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Tor usage doubles in under a week, and no one knows why

"And it's not just a fluke in the metrics data," Tor's project director writes.

by Cyrus Farivar - Aug 29 2013, 10:00am PST

This week on the Tor e-mail list, Roger Dingledine, the project leader for the well-known online anonymity tool, pointed out that the “number of Tor clients running appears to have doubled since August 19.”

The above graph shows that in less than one week, the number of Tor users has shot up to about 1.2 million from 600,000.

“And it's not just a fluke in the metrics data—it appears that there really are twice as many Tor clients running as before,”  [SNIP]

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/08/tor-usage-doubles-in-under-a-week-and-no-one-knows-why/