the bandwidth of millions of Hola users is being sold for reuse

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Ceewan

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Intersting article, especially if you use Hola:

https://torrentfreak.com/hola-vpn-sells-users-bandwidth-150528/

Some Highlights:

“When a user installs Hola, he becomes a VPN endpoint, and other users of the Hola network may exit through his internet connection and take on his IP. This is what makes it free: Hola does not pay for the bandwidth that its VPN uses at all, and there is no user opt out for this,”
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more:
Hola has gotten greedy. They recently (late 2014) realized that they basically have a 9 million IP strong botnet on their hands, and they began selling access to this botnet (right now, for HTTP requests only)
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intesting stuff....
 
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