Residential Proxies Are a National Security Threat

US residential proxies fuel social media manipulation and spam by routing bad actor traffic through hacked home connections. Victims are often tricked by free VPN apps, game SDKs, or malware on smart TVs. Because these IPs look like genuine users, blocking them is difficult, creating a perfect cover for foreign influence campaigns and botnets. I argue that ISPs must warn customers about suspicious activity, and the government should treat this infrastructure as a serious national security risk.