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Sounds awesome, what's the catch?
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You also get to run credit card fraud purchases through your home internet connection, such fun times we live in.

So what's the catch? Has anyone ever been arrested for proxying a fraudulent credit card transaction?

Probably not. But do you really want the hassle of explaining the proxy to the police when they get a report of CSAM content uploaded from your IP?

Has that ever happened?

It's a possibility. I don't know about CSAM but I know someone who was arrested for death threats sent to a politician after running a tor exit node. Eventually not charged, but he lost all his computing equipment for a couple of months


Has anything changed since 2009?

> Eventually not charged

Theres your answer.


Considering the question was "has that every happened?" regarding the police getting a report and you having to explain the proxy to them, I guess you mean the answer is yes and your attitude is misplaced?



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