Are you suggesting that LE infected over 2 million people's computers in order DOS the Tor network and prevent people from using SR? That's a class action lawsuit of epic proportions. No, these are probably some Russian/Eastern European hacker shitheads. The more people that run Tor, the bigger our anonymity set, but some of them also have to run relays. If 4000 relays can support 500K daily users, then we need 16,000 relays for 2 million users. The number of relays hasn't increased to keep up with the number of clients. Keep an eye on the tor-talk, tor-dev and tor-relays mailing lists at https://lists.torproject.org. They are trying to figure out what's going on and how to stop it. Almost certainly not. The increase started on August 19, and I don't know if the print article has even come out yet. The online article has received fewer than 400,000 views, not enough to account for an increase of 2 million clients. Why does everyone thing SR is so big and special? It is really a tiny part of the Tor network and pretty much nothing that happens at a global network level is due to SR. When SR got DOSed in April, it didn't affect the rest of the Tor network at all.