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VPN used for VR game cheat sells access to your home network (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 month 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] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So scammers and similar ilk?

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

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Innovation when big tech does it, breaking ToS when Joe Doe does it