A residential IP feels trustworthy because it's someone's actual house, phone, or car. This week two stories turn on exactly that: a botnet making cars route strangers' traffic, and a bandwidth-sharing app spinning up around a thousand fresh home exit IPs every hour. When a proxy pool churns that fast, a reputation score on one address barely means anything. Our new Reputation Radar on why "residential" shouldn't round up to "safe": https://www.reput.io/blog/reputation-radar-08