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by mintplant 1722 days ago
> At worst, it's a government agency honeypot

Kevin Poulsen's book Kingpin, about the takedown of CardersMarket, describes how the FBI ran a VPN service as a honeypot for quite a while as part of the operation, logging everything that passed through it. As you say, it could be anyone on the other end of that connection.