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3. Creating multiple accounts with platforms to break their ToS without getting chainbanned.

4. Perform DDoS

5. brute force passwords

6. try out leaked passwords

7. exploit vulns.

8. CSAM

9. Phish

10. Spam

11. Evade taxes with crypto

12. Sell drugs

13. Terrorism

Lots of malicious uses for VPNs, or was your question about legitimate usecases? In which case:

14. Sending emails about cryptography

15. Pornography

16. activism

17. Journalism/Whistleblowing

18. Military

Although some of the legitimate/ilegitimate categories might be subjective, which is precisely why it's a grey legal area at all.



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