Voila, VPN!
This 100%.
I don't think this is being discussed enough but I frequently see a lot of landlords trying to make their contract more attractive by including an internet offer with the rent (this is especially useful for people that look for 6-months contracts when internet providers usually give you a minimum contract length of a year).
Tenants could technically do any kind of illegal activities by using that network. I've always wondered how and who would be liable in case someone uncovers something big enough to get the attention of law enforcement.
I guess this differs by country but it seems highly plausible that a legal loophole could exist, leaving the landlord unexpectedly responsible for the tenant's actions.
Not really, you aren’t responsible for what other people do without your knowledge and you’d have solid evidence that someone else was able to use your network.
Sure, if your friend was committing some horrible crimes it might end up being slightly inconvenient for you.
Just find anything plausible, for backup storage, or say, to share family photos with grand parents but it does not work on my home wifi because my ISP is blocking ports, whatever.
I have build a vpn called Echo VPN for apple platform which actually use tailscale open source core.
Also I think there is another benefit is that wireguard can be DPIed easily now adays, but DERP leverage HTTPS and upgrade which can do some obfuscation too
Do your friends do that?
The majority of people have no idea what is VPN or Tailscale and would be suspicious that you might be placing a hacking device or proxy for visiting bad websites in their home.
The best part is that our IPs never seemed to be blocked by any service provider.
Do I think this is a thing that more people than you think are doing? Given that you're questioning if it happens at all, I'd say yes.
Do I think this is at all common or normal? Absolutely not. My friends and their friends are very technical compared to the general population, so it's not surprising that something "weird" like this would be overrepresented, but even then it's not commonplace to share with friends. You really need some tight-knit bonds in order for it to work. Bonds that many people don't have a ton of.
I should mention though, it's not just "bad" websites. A lot of websites geolocate, and for foreign nationals, those websites don't make content available outside the country (for whatever reason). So for a taste of streaming TV from home, a residential proxy in the home country does the trick to let them watch "local" news of home.
I miss the days when I could ssh to my computer with ddns.
[1] https://vp.net/l/en-US/blog/The-History-of-VPNs-and-Logging
