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- technology@lemmy.world
During this time she hosted computers for overseas IT workers — who were posing as American citizens and residents — to ensure the devices had local IP addresses, making them appear to be in the US.
Why would you need physical laptops for this? Wouldn’t it make more sense to just have a server hosting a VPN?
Services can differentiate between data centers and residential IP addresses. If your IP is from an ASN owned by digitalocean, it’s very likely they are using a proxy or a VPN.
Sure but, if it’s between setting up a bunch of laptops for people to proxy through or whatever, or running a VPN server from your home they can use instead, that would be the same IP.
People need to stop supporting blood thirsty dictators 🙄
Thats probably why she helped the resistance. If this story is real, which I doubt. Most stories involving korea in the west are fake.
Well, they got a cut of that most likely.