[liberationtech] on the traceability of circumvention tools

[Jacob Appelbaum]

On 09/17/2010 12:11 AM, Mehdi Yahyanejad wrote:
> 
>>
>> In any case, I'm not sure what you mean by "Tor simply doesn't have much
>> traction in Iran" when we clearly have many users:
>> http://metrics.torproject.org/recurring-users-graphs.html#iran
>>
>> The recent graphs looks like about 40,000 people were using Tor at the
>> end of August from Iran.
>>
> 
> I appreciate that you shared the updated data. I hadn't checked it during the 
> past two months. The numbers I had recalled were only a few thousands which
> based on your graphs was the case up until two months ago. I didn't consider 
> a few thousands significant compared to how ultrasurf/freegate was doing. It 
> seems Tor has made quite a bit of progress in the past two months. That's great. 
> 

Where are their numbers for Ultrasurf and Freegate?

Without citations, I'm simply unmoved by your statements. I'm sorry to
be difficult but I feel that you're being unreasonable with your claims
unless you can provide data or proof to backup your assertions.

Sincerely,
Jacob