# RSOCKS: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 1 judge label across 1 category by 1 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/rsocks

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Proxy and web data providers](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/it-data/proxy-networks/index.md) | 0% | 123 | 100% | 1 |

## And against it

- "RSOCKS (Seized by the FBI)" (Gemini 3.5 Flash, Proxy and web data)

## By model

| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named RSOCKS, from 3 of the 3 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- krebsonsecurity.com: 2
- aimultiple.com: 1
- blog.datahut.co: 1
- cloud.google.com: 1
- dataimpulse.com: 1
- fbi.gov: 1
- ic3.gov: 1
- iproyal.com: 1
- ipwithease.com: 1
- justice.gov: 1

### Pages cited

- https://aimultiple.com/netnut-shutdown: 1
- https://blog.datahut.co/post/is-web-scraping-legal: 1
- https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/google-continued-disruption-residential-proxy-networks: 1
- https://dataimpulse.com/blog/how-to-tell-if-proxy-provider-is-ethical: 1
- https://fbi.gov/investigate/cyber/alerts/2026/evading-residential-proxy-networks-protecting-your-devices-from-becoming-a-tool-for-criminals: 1
- https://fbi.gov/investigate/cyber/how-to-identify-and-remove-vpn-applications-that-contain-911-s5-backdoors: 1
- https://fbi.gov/video-repository/inside-the-fbi-the-911-s5-cyber-threat-061124.mp4/view: 1
- https://ic3.gov/PSA/2024/PSA240529: 1

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/it.