Hola VPN turns 10M users into exit nodes

Re:Hola VPN turns 10M users into exit nodes by sudioStudio64 on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @08:59PM (#9615459)

It looks like they clarified their story, not changed it? It did say that it uses idle resources collaboratively...I'm not really trying to argue, just wondering if it was really that deceptive. I had never heard of them until this post.

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Re:Hola VPN turns 10M users into exit nodes by 8chan on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @09:01PM (#9615466)

> It did say that it uses idle resources collaboratively

So does Folding@Home. So does tor onion routing (relay node). Nowhere did it say outside of the EULA that they are using all their users as exit nodes.

They failed to specify which "resources". It's indefensible, and people would have fallen for this cover up had Google not archived it.

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Re:Hola VPN turns 10M users into exit nodes by sudioStudio64 on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @09:04PM (#9615479)

I see what you mean. That's pretty crazy.

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Re:Hola VPN turns 10M users into exit nodes by hiamnew on Thursday May 28, 2015 @02:58AM (#9616459)

Tor only relays if users explicitly configure it to. By default Tor acts as a client.

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