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VPN used for VR game cheat sells access to your home network (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 days ago by shoulderoforion@fedia.io to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Big Mama VPN tied to network which offers access to residential IP addresses.

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[–] fatalicus@lemmy.world 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.

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

So scammers and similar ilk?

[–] Buffalobuffalo@reddthat.com 2 points 9 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.