Ben Brundage

And then, you know, the text says, hack the Dutch government.

And all I got was this lousy T-shirt.

It was like a crazy thing to start to realize that a lot of these IP addresses are, in fact, unethically obtained.

To me, it was just like, oh, I feel like there's something more here.

Like, it was just, you know, I feel like people should talk about it more.

It seems interesting.

There's a whole world here that people rarely touch on.

I was like, OK, these are exactly the same, right?

They have a cookie cutter website where checkout flow is the same.

The website user interface is the same.

The only thing that's different is like the brand name and, you know, the color palette may be different.

IP Idea had no regulations.

And so it's just like, oh, that's really interesting, right?

Like most of these proxy providers, they have stuff in place that are like guardrails to prevent their users from committing fraud, let's say, right?

And the fact that they didn't stood out.

where, you know, we're like, okay, you're missing some IP addresses, and they send some screenshots of essentially their residential proxies, you know, not being detected by the service.

So they're like, oh, you got a couple of them, but you didn't get all of them, essentially.

I think there's like a certain way of typing that people my age tend to like type in.

Let's say on Discord or any social media where they maybe use emojis more often or GIFs or even like the language they use.

So I think that was kind of the indicator that it's not going to be somebody that's in their 40s or 30s.