A few months later, all my personal gmail account are seized and I reveive an email (that I could read after changing my password) from a police department in god fuck knows where middle of nowhere countryside asking me for data on the proxy usage.
Sadly I had revoked the server subscription since I didnt need it anymore (and probably hadnt kept any logs anyway since I was just playing aroud with a server) but I really really wanted to help.
I mean, it s rare the police would call you for a legitimate usage and political suppression. They call you for fraud with damage and it s awful being responsible in small part but unable to help... I was not mad they read all my emails, I was sorry someone lost money because of my mistake.
Maybe I haven't had enough coffee, but I'm failing to connect how leaving a proxy open was a major enabler for fraud. What kind of fraud?
Amazon? Trust? People trust Amazon to exist and to bill. Providing services to those who pay the bills is almost incidental.