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These are very broad and bold claims. Do you have any evidence to support any of these claims you made? Also, why do you think a shady person would be likely t

These are very broad and bold claims. Do you have any evidence to support any of these claims you made? Also, why do you think a shady person would be likely to reside in Cambodia? Do you have any evidence to support this claim?

walrus01 5y ago
a) having been on the side of the ISPs that shady vpn providers approach when they're looking to rent dedicated servers or colocation space. 90% of the time when we did research into the potential "client" it turned out to be too much risk. Lots of common things like we couldn't tie them to a specific LLC or corporation in the USA or Canada, they couldn't provide any information of creditworthiness, the persons who wanted to sign the service agreement we had no way of verifying they were officers of the entity they purported to represent. People who would only contact by email and refuse to have a phone conversation or face to face. b) that's a specific person, but I won't say who, for obvious reasons. Lots of reasons why from the POV of a shady vpn service provider you might want to live offshore and pay as little money in taxes as possible, I suppose, so there's a certain logic to it. Please keep in mind I have been seeing weird/shady things in internet infrastructure for a very long time. I was helping set up OpenBSD firewalls for online casinos colocated in small island nation states 22 years ago, so I have a certain jaded perspective on these things.
- bugbuddy 5y ago
  Beside VPN providers and casinos, what other categories of online business do you often find shady? It is unfair to label a country a tax haven based on a single anecdote. However, Cambodia is cheap and pretty safe for expats so it makes sense.
  - walrus01 5y ago
    What else is shady on the internet? Click farms Review farms Residential proxies Captcha solving services employing people in very low cost of labor locations Fake tech support scams Canada revenue agency / IRS scam call centers Porn website hosting Anything involving Rob Monster Bitcoin tumblers Cryptocurrency exchanges Fad of the week newly created cryptocurrency College essay writing services NFTs Selling used panties online Website hosting for services similar to the now shutdown Backpage.com (anything escort or prostitution related) Buying drugs with cryptocurrency

walrus01 5y ago

a) having been on the side of the ISPs that shady vpn providers approach when they're looking to rent dedicated servers or colocation space. 90% of the time when we did research into the potential "client" it turned out to be too much risk. Lots of common things like we couldn't tie them to a specific LLC or corporation in the USA or Canada, they couldn't provide any information of creditworthiness, the persons who wanted to sign the service agreement we had no way of verifying they were officers of the entity they purported to represent. People who would only contact by email and refuse to have a phone conversation or face to face. b) that's a specific person, but I won't say who, for obvious reasons. Lots of reasons why from the POV of a shady vpn service provider you might want to live offshore and pay as little money in taxes as possible, I suppose, so there's a certain logic to it. Please keep in mind I have been seeing weird/shady things in internet infrastructure for a very long time. I was helping set up OpenBSD firewalls for online casinos colocated in small island nation states 22 years ago, so I have a certain jaded perspective on these things.

bugbuddy 5y ago
Beside VPN providers and casinos, what other categories of online business do you often find shady? It is unfair to label a country a tax haven based on a single anecdote. However, Cambodia is cheap and pretty safe for expats so it makes sense.
- walrus01 5y ago
  What else is shady on the internet? Click farms Review farms Residential proxies Captcha solving services employing people in very low cost of labor locations Fake tech support scams Canada revenue agency / IRS scam call centers Porn website hosting Anything involving Rob Monster Bitcoin tumblers Cryptocurrency exchanges Fad of the week newly created cryptocurrency College essay writing services NFTs Selling used panties online Website hosting for services similar to the now shutdown Backpage.com (anything escort or prostitution related) Buying drugs with cryptocurrency