Post #1570890
2026-01-28 21:17 UTC
@HunterZ@mastodon.sdf.org @osm_tech@en.osm.town lots of mobile/desktop apps, browser extensions, and even IoT devices are paid by "residential proxy" companies to prey on their users by selling said users's connections to AI scrapers https://www.spamhaus.org/resource-hub/compromised/lets-talk-about-the-danger-of-residential-proxy-networks/
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@vampirdaddy@chaos.social 2026-01-30 07:42
@jay0 @HunterZ @osm_tech Until recently I mainly fought against residential proxys facilitating DDoS- and crawling-attacks. Thus I did not have the access threat to internal systems on my radar. I think that vector is under-reported: Residential (i.e. software- or library-embedded) proxys on smartphones that are allowed into company networks.