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VPN used for VR game cheat sells access to your home network (www.wired.com)
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[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Why would I buy access to my home network?

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago

"Residential IPs" are quite valuable for web scraping. Many scraping prevention tools and services use the source IP as the primary metric. If you come from a public cloud provider like AWS, GCP or DigitalOcean you get blocked 99% of the time. If you come from a US residential ISP then you get much more relaxed screening.

[–] twisterpop3@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Someone who is planning to commit crime could do so from your home IP address. At best, the police/FBI recognize that you didn't do the crime. At worst, you get charged for something you didn't do.