• chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 hours ago

    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?

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      5 hours ago

      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.

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        5 hours ago

        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.

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      2 hours ago

      Thats probably why she helped the resistance. If this story is real, which I doubt. Most stories involving korea in the west are fake.

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      17 hours ago

      Well, they got a cut of that most likely.