• frongt@lemmy.zip
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    It sounds like people installed one of those free proxy things that’s actually malware. I’m not sure I’d call that “intrusion” but it’s certainly illegal.

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      I mean, it might’ve not been illegal. It was probably hidden in some T&C somewhere. That’s the trade-off. You get a free privacy proxy, they get a free residential proxy endpoint.

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        Deploying botnet software is usually always illegal, regardless of consent.