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VPN used for VR game cheat sells access to your home network (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Big Mama VPN tied to network which offers access to residential IP addresses.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What does this mean? What use would "their clients" need access to your network? What are they routing to through your network and how does that help with efficiency?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

IP addresses.

Their commercial clients are doing things that give IPs bad reputation or banned from services, so they use this service to get access to home IPs to use.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So scammers and similar ilk?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

It would not shock me if companies like OpenAi would have used something like this so they could harvest large amounts of data without setting off usage limits. While sketchy not sure if this counts as scammy.