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Not just VPN providers or other paid services. Open proxies on the internet are bad for everyone.
by TedDoesntTalk 4y ago
Not just VPN providers or other paid services. Open proxies on the internet are bad for everyone.
- _aizw 4y agoWhat are the other issues with open proxies?
- TedDoesntTalk 4y agoThey are usually hosted by malware installed on a vulnerable system. And if they are SOCKS proxies (vs http proxies), then they can send send spam using the IP address of the infected device.
- miohtama 4y agoCyberattacks use open proxies to amplify the attack/hide their source.
- ajross 4y agoAuthorization and access control are different problems. You can use ssh to create a auth-free SOCKS5 pipe, for example (lots of us do this every day), but that's not an "open proxy" because it's e.g. listening on ::1 or on the internal network interface, etc...