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VPN used for VR game cheat sells access to your home network (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 months 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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[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 53 points 2 months ago (7 children)

TL;DR: They used free VPN called Big Mama.

From their FAQ: https://bigma.org/faq.html

How is it possible to keep it free?
The devices of our free VPN customers are used to create a secure peer-to-peer network that our commercial clients can use to securely route their traffic via various global endpoints. As a free client, you will likely not notice any impact on your resources as that happens. The data transferred in the background will be metered by your mobile operator according to your data plan.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So it's literally up front and in their FAQ that they do this. So why is this a story?

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 months ago

Because scary words!

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