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VPN used for VR game cheat sells access to your home network

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67% Informative

Teenagers have produced video tutorials showing how to side-load a virtual private network onto Meta ’s virtual reality headsets and use the location-changing technology to get ahead in the game.

Using a VPN, according to the tutorials, introduces a delay that makes it easier to sneak up and tag other players.

The free VPN app that the tutorials point to, Big Mama VPN, is also selling access to users’ home internet connections.

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English

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61

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possibly offensive

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medium-lived

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