For those who don't know what this is, here's a decent podcast about it:

https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/172/

There's a transcript if you want to read, not listen. At the start, you'll be "hey! I gotta get me one!" and later you'll be like "burn it with fire!"

I have seen these at mall kiosks advertising "free cable", and today I learned they are proxying from your home network.

That was the first thing I thought of!

A friend in Texas claims they recently bought one at Wal-Mart. I don't know anything about how these work but that can't be true ... right?