Re:Hola VPN turns 10M users into exit nodes
by dchuk on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @08:39PM
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Doesn't that same risk exist if you're running a Tor exit node?
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Re:Hola VPN turns 10M users into exit nodes
by nickysielicki on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @08:54PM
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That's exactly the point, people hosting tor exit nodes are very aware of the risk they're taking. Hola users aren't.
Most people use Hola to watch internet shows not available in their country. Or, for example, some people use Hola to watch southparkstudios from Sweden, because it's freely available there, but in the US it requires hulu plus.
I'm on a college campus, I am always peeking at people's screens in the library and I'll see the little Hola flame in their navbar. I even saw it on a CS grad student's browser once before class.
No one has any idea.