The Security Blog

"Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis. Tor protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, and it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location. Tor works with many of your existing applications, including web browsers, instant messaging clients, remote login, and other applications based on the TCP protocol."

Since it is not a secret that Iran people fear to express divergent view from the regime's and since, as we already know, our main pipeline to information coming out of Iran is Internet based, we found that quite a lot of people in Iran have (wisely) chosen to use TOR.  TOR is NOT a bullet proof tool (again, no pun intended).  It is not 100% secure nor 100% foolproof. We wanted to share this following data with you, showing how many new TOR users operate out of Iran.   Take a look at this chart: 

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We see that over the last week, Iran's normal baseline of adding 150 or so users per day has pegged to almost 1,000 per day.  This is not a total of a 1000 people – it is 1000 NEW clients per day.  This is an increase of 667% percent.  In one week.

UNREAL.

Oh, and if you'd like to get TOR, find it here.

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