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Botnet of more than 17 million devices dismantled (arstechnica.com)
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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 11 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] kn33@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 days ago

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

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 5 days ago

Dang I was hoping there would be some surplus hardware...