Our Residential Proxy Observatory, launched earlier this week, is a first-of-its-kind interface that gives researchers a global view of residential proxy and anonymized internet activity.
While our team was looking through it, we noticed residential proxy exit activity on AS2650. AS2650 is registered to the Executive Office of the President, the federal agency that hosts the White House network. Residential proxy services sell access to everyday devices, letting customers send traffic through them so it appears to come from that device's network.
To make sure this was not a fluke, we checked these addresses against other residential proxy detection services, such as Spur and Synthient. Their public IP context pages independently identify these addresses as residential proxy exits.
