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Arizona laptop farmer pleads guilty for funneling $17M to Kim Jong Un (www.theregister.com)
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[โ€“] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Services can differentiate between data centers and residential IP addresses. If your IP is from an ASN owned by digitalocean, it's very likely they are using a proxy or a VPN.

[โ€“] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Sure but, if it's between setting up a bunch of laptops for people to proxy through or whatever, or running a VPN server from your home they can use instead, that would be the same IP.