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The anonymizing network Tor divided to countries

Published Oktober 1st, 2007 in english content, Tor Tags: No Tags.

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As you can see in the piechart, germany is barely before the USA. In consideration of the total population germany even has a bigger advance. Surprisingly the tor network consists of 184 servers from china, which is 10% of the whole network.China has inhabitants over a billion, but only about 100 million humans use InterNet China often stands in the headlines, if it concerns human rights and liberty of opinion. It is well-known that the Chinese government does much, in order to refuse humans entrance to certain information.Tor is a medium, with which the national censorship can be gone around. The use of such tools is heavily punished in china, therefore it is the more surprising that there are humans, who expose themselves to this danger.France gives solid 6 percent. Very surprising is that Portugal follows with 99 servers. In comparision with countries like germany, france or spain portugal has just a very small population (10,9 million). Italy and the netherlands follow with 3 percent each. The following countries gave 2%: Finland, Austria, Canada, Poland, Great Britain and Sweden. Not in the piechart:

Switzerland 18

Brazil 10

Bulgaria 8

Belgium 5

New Zealand 12

Norway 4

Romania 13

Taiwan 12

Estonia 11

In the following table one sees a confrontation of the numbers of inhabitants of a country with the number of tor servers

. As we can see Germany has the most Tor servers. In Relation to the number of inhabitans Estonia places the most tor servers. 11 tor servers but just 1,3 million inhabitans. The ratio is 1:122000. This means 1 person out of 122000 in Estonia runs a Tor server. In Germany the ratio is 1:152992. So if we contront the number of inhabitans with the tor servers, Estonia runs the most servers. A very good result for such a small country. But we have to consider that 11 servers arent a good basis for the result. Fi 4 of these 11 servers would stop the results would be completely different. China has a ratio of 1:7,18 million. This isnt very good but if we consider the literacy rate and the hard censorship its ok. The worst ratio has brazil with 1:18 million. The basis with 10 servers was also very small here.Besides we must consider that in China and Brazil there are other conditions than in Europe, where poverty is much more strongly pronounced and/or Tor is not far common.Also the proportional use of the Internet by the population plays a big role here. The 100 million Internet users in China are less than 10% of the total population. Besides there is comparable software, which is used more frequently in other countries(e.g. freenet). Countries with 2 or 3 tor servers are not in my statistics.Why does Germany place the most Tor servers? 57% of the total population in Germany use the internet. This may play a big role in comparision with countries such as China or Brazil, but what about countries like the United States, France, Italy or Poland? In Germany topics such as the hacker paragraph, the data storage of the federal Government and government-trojans are discussed more than in other European Union countries. These 3 projects of the federal Government mean 3 large restrictions for different groups of persons. Data storage of the federal government and goverment-trojans are topics, which concern all Federal citizens, because they intervene the privacy. For many IT specialists the hacker paragraph is a handicap of their work, because now its under punishment to use specific software like nmap or nessus to check the system/network for weaknesses.

I think that for the reasons mentioned many try to act against the projects of the Federal Government, e.g. with Tor. James shows us how to encrypt emails, Pete runs a Tor server for others.A significant rise of the german Tor servers has been monitored in January. This is connected with the fact that talks about Tor were hold at 23C3(Chaos Computer Club Meeting). News about JAP (Java Anonymity Proxy) servers, which were seized could be a reason for the missing confidence of the users of Tor, who changed to Tor. As long as Tor Servers in Germany are not yet forbidden this trend will surely continue.

Germany and the USA place together more than 50% of the entire Tor Servers. Tor creates a connection between 3 different, coindidentally selected gate servers. User –> Tor Node 1–> Tor Node 2–> Exit Node –> target. “Tor node 1″ is not knowing that the traffic will go through “exit Node” and “exit Node” does not know that traffic came from “Tor node 1″, because “Tor node 2″ is between them. The probability to get only servers from the USA or Germany is 1:6. The probability to get only servers from Germany is approx.. 1:11. Many critics of Tor are the opinion that exactly this missing variety could become a problem. Theories were discussed fully, in which it was represented how the government could set up 100 Tor servers and how the anonymity would be gone after this. I quite regard this criticism as entitled. To get a larger measure of anonymity it should be considered to edit the program to be sure that Node 1,2 and 3 are not from the same country. A suggestion of mine to add a 4. Node was thanking rejected.

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Andrewlih.com
Tor madness reloaded
Typepad
Why you shouldn’t run bittorent over tor
tor plausible deniability watchdog and seizures/ http://d-kriptik.com/blog/2007/03/08/tor-again/
http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/1875/