Are there any smart criminals left?
So wait... just so that I understand what was going on here...
DoubleVPN was a single, monolithic company with multiple PoPs and they upcharged you to route your traffic through multiple PoPs before heading to the destination.
Yet the infrastructure was all owned by the same organization?
In the old hackers example provided in the article, the protection afforded was that you were bouncing off non-related infrastructures, so it'd take longer and be harder to back-trace the traffic. (According to a friend.)
It seems that all these clowns did is introduce excessive latency and hike the cost to connect to your destination.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
