Ifconfig.co – Hacker-friendly “What is my IP address”

Re:Ifconfig.co – Hacker-friendly “What is my IP address” by koolba on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @09:56AM (#26634646)

What is a residential proxy network?

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Re:Ifconfig.co – Hacker-friendly “What is my IP address” by duskwuff on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @02:37PM (#26638520)

A wretched hive of scum and villainy.

But seriously, it's basically a front end to a bunch of people who have been incentivized (or fooled) into installing a proxy server on their home computers. It's primarily of interest as a way to make certain types of fraud (like ad fraud and credit card fraud) much harder to detect.

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Re:Ifconfig.co – Hacker-friendly “What is my IP address” by judge2020 on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @10:29AM (#26634991)

  $ whois 52.202.152.73
  OrgName:        Amazon Technologies Inc.

I guess Amazon? Would be funny if this actually ran over Amazon Sidewalk but I doubt that.

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Re:Ifconfig.co – Hacker-friendly “What is my IP address” by weird-eye-issue on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @01:44PM (#26637765)

You are looking at the IP of lumtest.com not the service behind it which is what the OP was referring to.

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Re:Ifconfig.co – Hacker-friendly “What is my IP address” by GoblinSlayer on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @10:34AM (#26635048)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminati

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Re:Ifconfig.co – Hacker-friendly “What is my IP address” by paxo on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @10:23AM (#26634920)

yeah that seems interesting

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