Whonix ™ Census
From Whonix
Whonix ™ User Count Statistic[edit]
Table: Whonix ™ Project Metrics
| Daily Whonix-Gateway ™ Users | |
| 15 March 2019 | 3,682 |
| 24 August 2019 | 4,107 |
| 17 October 2019 | 4,446 |
| 8 February 2020 | 5,326 |
| 31 March 2020 | 5,887 |
| 01 March 2021 | 8,236 |
User count is manually updated every now and then. Low priority.
Explanation what daily Whonix-Gateway ™
users means:
- Total amount of Whonix ™ users: The total number of Whonix ™ is probably higher than the number of daily Whonix-Gateway ™ users.
- New day, still running, new count: A Whonix-Gateway ™ that runs longer than 1 day (24 hours) will re-fetch Whonix ™ warrant canary and therefore be counted again.
- New day, new boot, new count: A Whonix-Gateway ™ that has not been run for longer than 1 day (24 hours) will re-fetch Whonix ™ warrant canary and therefore be counted again.
- Duplication: Users using multiple Whonix-Gateway ™ are counted multiple times. There is no probably no way to avoid that with the current design (see next chapter).
- Non-Duplication: Boots are not explicitly counted. Counting every user every time a Whonix-Gateway ™ is booted would lead to less accurate results since many users start and shutdown their computers multiple times per day.
- Non-Live: Live users are not counted.
Whonix ™ User Count Design[edit]
There are strict requirements for the Whonix ™ user count:
- No private information transferred at all.
- No unique identifiers of any kind.
- No IP addresses are ever collected. [1]
- Count only once within 24 hours.
- Can be easily disabled.
- By-product of, and based on whonixcheck's automated Warrant Canary Check which downloads and verifies Whonix ™ warrant canary.
- Download over Tor.
- Download using Whonix ™ Tor onion v3 service.
- Similar to sdwdate fetching time from onion time sources.
- Security: See, same as Warrant Canary Check.
- Inspired by Clean Insights (Privacy-Preserving Measurement) [archive] by Guardian Project [archive], Matomo [archive] (formerly Piwik, is a free and open source web analytics application), Tor Metrics [archive], Tails boot statistics [archive], Prio [archive] (Private, Robust, and Scalable Computation of Aggregate Statistics) by Stanford University, Privacy-Preserving Telemetry [archive] by Mozilla.
- For further details, see Warrant Canary Check.
Rationale for Whonix ™ User Count[edit]
- Feedback for maintainers of Whonix ™ if the number of Whonix ™ users increases over time.
- Some people decide based on impact to which project these would like to contribute.
- Capability to answer questions such as does Whonix ™ have more users than lets say for example a project which was founded a year ago.
- Comparison of number of users of Tor, Tails, Whonix ™.
- Users can decide if these would like to share the same Fingerprint as 100 or thousands of other users.
- Web and network fingerprint considerations.
- Data is available already anyhow through whonixcheck's automated verification of Whonix ™ warrant canary. [2]
Disable Whonix ™ User Count[edit]
See whonixcheck wiki page chapters
Forum Discussion[edit]
https://forums.whonix.org/t/whonix-census-counter-the-number-of-whonix-users/7620 [archive]
See Also[edit]
Footnotes[edit]
- ↑
By using an onion service, the server has no way to log originating IP addresses.
Privacy policy for
whonix.orgwebsite is different. See Privacy Policy chapter IP Addresses and IP Addresses Logging Policy and Trusting the Whonix ™ Website. - ↑
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