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Open proxies? I heard about this more than a decade ago, but why would anybody in 2022 run an open proxy? Or are these open proxies unintentional, i.e. misconfi

• acatton 4y ago
  Some are misconfigured, but others are just honeypots to sniff out some traffic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QT4YJn7oVI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QT4YJn7oVI
• oefrha 4y ago
  Misconfigure your squid/privoxy and you’ll probably end up on an open proxy list within hours. Been there.
• alexforster 4y ago
  Many of them are unintentional: a device sitting on the open internet has some vulnerability and gets exploited. Bad guy sets up a proxy on the device and uses it to click a bunch of ads using bots, or crawl Google results, or launch attacks, etc. Or, as mentioned below, they could simply be the result of misconfiguration. Some of them are very intentional: https://www.torproject.org/ https://www.torproject.org/