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Tom Galvin

Tom Galvin

Associate Professor of Resource Management at the U.S. Army War College and former U.S. Army colonel

Jun 25, 2026

2:58
And just for the uninitiated, what is a residential proxy?
3:05
Sure.
3:06
So this is Tom Galvin.
3:07
So you got the differences between Stephen and I.
3:11
So a residential proxy is a means by which IP connections can be masked and used initially roughly 10 years ago so that companies, if a company was a national company and want to see how their advertising was doing in Iowa, they could localize advertising.
3:28
So they'd use residential IP connections because that would replicate it and they could see things.
3:33
Over time, that service got warped by criminals who now use IP connections, including potentially yours, mine, or someone who's listening to this, to be able to take over devices in the home and use them for bots.

14 MINS LATER

17:26
That's about the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

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