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VPN used for VR game cheat sells access to your home network (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 days 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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[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 57 points 2 days ago (2 children)

People who help you break rules will break other rules too. In other news, water is wet.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 day ago

That reminds me. There was a story about a cheater who sold tools for disrupting multiplayer games and it was pretty popular.

Then he added a crypto miner in there which went undetected for a long time and then he ghost.

[–] lukewarm_ozone@lemmy.today 11 points 2 days ago

If you actually read the article, this is just a normal-ish (although peer-to-peer, which is interesting) free VPN, it isn't actually oriented towards cheating. The funniest part is that if the article is to be believed, the "cheating" consists of simply increasing your ping. Which... you don't really need a VPN for.