totally not israel

Collin Anderson on tor-talk posted a nice graphic showing tor usage in the top 50 states since the appearance of the huge rise in the number of tor clients on the network. With the exception of Syria, the slopes of all those graphs looks much the same.

But as a few people have noticed, the graph for Israel at the same time is completely different.

israel-tor

So, whilst the rest of the world sees a massive climb in tor client usage, possibly the result of a botnet doing some exploration of the tor network, Israel’s usage goes down.

What does that say?

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