Is there a (technical) difference between a residential proxy and bot network node?
Proxy is an application. Botnet is a delivery method. Residential is a classification that surveillance companies made up to stalk you better.
LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps
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#472The messed up thing is that we need to rely on LG to stop allowing it rather than just making it illegal.
Why would it be illegal though? What law?
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#473They just straight up ask people to be a proxy? And people say yes? SMH...
Why wouldn't you? Better than ads.
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#4752026, the year of the trojaned pacman app, lmfao
puck, man; how are ppl so stupid
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#476Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not "quasi-malware," it is malware.
My understanding of malware is that it must cause some problem for the user.
Slowing down your internet connection due to using your bandwidth without your knowledge, getting blocked by websites due to malicious traffic from your IP address, extra annoying captchas due to the same. Those were just the first 3 things off the top of my head.
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#477Earlier quoted context omitted.
In a hypothetical world where using TLS was abnormal, you could monitor the content of whatever the bots are doing for suspicious activity. And if they chose to use TLS anyway, the mere presence of of TLS could be considered suspicious. Back in the real world, you can also passively fingerprint TLS handshakes to characterise the client device. Most of these proxy networks masquerade as "normal" clients, but if the ty…
It's not a crime to buy a new device and log it in to your WiFi.
Of course not, but if someone buys 1000 new devices and rotates devices with each request, it might be worth sending them an email like "hey did you mean to be doing that?"
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#478Some of you might want to check out throwaway96/dejavuln-autoroot or the older throwaway96/faultmanager-autoroot, www.webosbrew.org/rooting and cani.rootmy.tv. Looks like it's patchy for the very latest models, but you might find the literature useful anyway.
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#479Earlier quoted context omitted.
My understanding of malware is that it must cause some problem for the user.
Slowing down your internet connection due to using your bandwidth without your knowledge, getting blocked by websites due to malicious traffic from your IP address, extra annoying captchas due to the same. Those were just the first 3 things off the top of my head.
Got plenty of bandwidth, sites block you regardless, you get captchas regardless. Plus, IP addresses rotate once a day so you're just as likely to get someone else's bad reputation anyway.
To sue them you'd have to show some actual, concrete harm. For example you contact a site that is blocking you and they tell you it's due to a certain request and you trace that request to the proxy.