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

submitted 1 day 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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[–] modus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day 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?

[–] fatalicus@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day 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 3 points 2 hours ago

So scammers and similar ilk?