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And what’s the context for using the internet traffic of your unsuspecting users to accomplish this?

Using the internet trafic of the persons using your service to protect your anonymity and thus, protecting the service itself.

So you shouldn’t have to inform your users that their traffic will be used in a cyberattack?

In most jurisdictions informing them would potentially make them legally liable. The fact they had no knowledge shields them from liability.

So their desire to not be used to commit a cyberattack doesn’t factor in? As long as they aren’t legally liable, it doesn’t matter?

Also a checkbox that says something like “I would like to help commit a crime using my internet traffic” would keep people from having their traffic used without consent.

Unfortunately “consent” is a difficult to understand concept for a lot of the web and Silicon Valley.

I don't have strong feelings about that one way or the other, honestly.

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