mike_d 10 months ago

Computers getting infected with malware, pre-compromised cheap internet devices from Amazon/Wish.com, and game developers monetizing "free" games by running proxies in the background.

There are usually a few layers of resellers so technically the proxy provider can throw their hands up in the air and say they are unaware of any malicious activity.

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  • stevenicr 10 months ago

    someone in your household adds a 'free vpn app' to their device and that app sells off portions of your bandwidth to others.

    Someone has a cheap android tv box or similar unpatched thing with your wifi password

    (one botnet alone has over 1.3 million android boxes working for it as of this week - https://www.securityweek.com/1-3-million-android-tv-boxes-in... )

    Someone start cobbling lists of these so I can block them in a different way.

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