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VPN used for VR game cheat sells access to your home network (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Big Mama VPN tied to network which offers access to residential IP addresses.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is actually almost always the case with free VPNs.

If you look at residential IP providers, they have MILLIONS of IPs available to them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

100%, “free” is never free