I've looked at 8,000,000 squid proxies on the internet, and of those, 8,000 of them are open; meaning there are 8k squid hosts that allow anyone on the internet to proxy through them.
I've also looked at ~3,000,00 SOCKS servers, and of those, only 968 were open proxies.
@strcpy but.. why male models?
I mean , why do you think so many things are open? some weird default based on packaging or docker configs, cut n paste from stackoverflow?
@Toxic_Flange anything I say would just be a guess; most likely the operators have no idea they are exposed like that.
There seems to be some large groups of host that use each other as transit, for example around 200 squid hosts transit out of 221.152.211.15 (korea), ~95 out of 207.56.189.18 (hong kong) and ~10 out of 192.142.18.105 (netherlands).
The ones I find really interesting are the hosts that exist within one country, and exit out of another. Like, there are a few that exist within china, but transit out a host in the US.
Mark LZ
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