I recently mentioned Tor in my article highlighting The Silk Road, the online illegal substances marketplace that you must run Tor to access and where the only currency accepted is Bitcoin. As we have seen with statistics showing tremendous growth in alternative search engines, technology users worldwide have indeed adjusted their habits in the wake of Edward Snowden’s NSA revelations. We now learn from the Daily Dot that:
Edward Snowden’s revelations about National Security Agency data monitoring sent Internet users scrambling for ways to regain their privacy.
Since Snowden came forward with details about the NSA’s PRISM program in June, the number of global Tor users has doubled. Tor is a open source network by which users obscure their online activity by navigating a network of computer relays. In the U.S., the number of users has grown by more than 75 percent.
Graphs via metrics.torproject.org
Maybe that’s why Americans, far and away, lead the rates of average daily usage. Americans account for 17.54 percent of daily Tor traffic—the only nation to account for more than 10 percent.
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