points by cryptonym 3 days ago | 0 comments
You resell a game, bundling a botnet proxy inside, and make it freemium: free if you accept T&C with a service allowing using your device connection for research purposes (or whatever wording could be even more confusing), or pay $20.
It's no longer a botnet, it's a "residential proxy" and you are doing clean business.
[–] port11 3 days ago
[–] anon7000 2 days ago
More than half of LG smart Tv apps seem to have residential proxies: https://spur.us/blog/smart-tv-apps-residential-proxy-sdks
Definitely pretty crazy. This is probably have they’re in the White House, all it takes is a random smart device to install a seemingly benign wallpaper app
[–] cryptonym 3 days ago
"User accepted T&C" is enough to get away with almost anything. It works very well for top IT companies. Upholding new business to higher standards would be unfair.
[–] BLKNSLVR 3 days ago
In my head this is Joe Pesci saying "the money is now laundered" in Lethal Weapon 2.
And I’d argue that’s not clean business, the user doesn’t know what their connection is being used for :)