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VPN used for VR game cheat sells access to your home network (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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Big Mama VPN tied to network which offers access to residential IP addresses.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 week 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.

[–] modus 8 points 1 week ago (4 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 12 points 1 week 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 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So scammers and similar ilk?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Tangent5280 1 points 1 week ago

Innovation when big tech does it, breaking ToS when Joe Doe does it

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