Counting a Snowflake proxy's users without becoming its honeypot

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

My Raspberry Pi 1 has been relaying Tor traffic as a Snowflake proxy since 20 October. The first entry covers the setup. This one started with a simple question: where do the people using it come from?

A Snowflake proxy on a first-generation Raspberry Pi

Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The oldest computer in my lab is a Raspberry Pi 1 Model B from 2012: one ARMv6 core at 700 MHz, 512 MB of RAM, a 100 Mbit network port. Too slow for almost anything people use a Pi for today, so I wanted to know whether it could still do something useful. It turned out it could: for the last couple of weeks it has been helping people in censored countries reach Tor.

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Counting a Snowflake proxy's users without becoming its honeypot

A Snowflake proxy on a first-generation Raspberry Pi