• Hola CEO responds to the botnet accusations
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[b]The recent events on the Hola network[/b] Source: [url=https://hola.org/blog/the-recent-events-on-the-hola-network]Hola.org blog[/url] ____________________ [quote]Hola is all about innovation. And freedom. We created the first P2P network for HTTP to accelerate and open the Internet. The network that allows anyone in any country to access any site. Facebook from Iran. Twitter from Turkey. Watch your favorite shows back home when travelling. No more discrimination. For the past two years, Hola has been growing steadily - purely via word of mouth and stellar reviews. Our marketing budget was zero $. We grew organically. People simply love Hola and made it the number one VPN in the world. Which is why the last week has been so difficult for us. There have been some terrible accusations against Hola which we feel are unjustified. We innovated quickly, but it looks like Steve Jobs was right. We made some mistakes, and now we’re going to fix them, fast. Since May 28, our people have been working literally 24/7. I want to share with you what happened and what we’re doing about it.[/quote] Pretty interesting, I commend him for coming clean about it.
Ew, why did he reference Steve Jobs, as if his shitty add-on is actually comparable to Apple
I wonder what HotWheels has to say about this.
[QUOTE=Pretiacruento;47852780]I wonder what HotWheels has to say about this.[/QUOTE] I'd rather listen to a unbiased and tech knowing third-party dissecting this mess. Both the accuser and the accused are bound to be painfully biased, just look at Hola's blog.
[QUOTE=Tacooo;47852739]Ew, why did he reference Steve Jobs, as if his shitty add-on is actually comparable to Apple[/QUOTE] Maybe he is trying to say that he is a massive asshole?
Site appears to be down now
[QUOTE=flamehead5;47853543]Site appears to be down now[/QUOTE] Maybe they got DDoS by someone using Luminati
[QUOTE=KillerJaguar;47853681]Maybe they got DDoS by someone using Luminati[/QUOTE] That would be a great way to demonstrate how flawed it is and how easily it can be abused.
I was also about to commend him on being honest, but then I checked [url]http://adios-hola.org/[/url] and... [quote]UPDATE (June 1, 2015): Today, Hola has finally published a statement. Unfortunately, it doesn't quite address the issues - many of the issues are ignored, and some claims are simply false. For example, their statement makes the following claim: Two vulnerabilities were found in our product this past week. [...] In fact, we fixed both vulnerabilities within a few hours of them being published and pushed an update to all our community. We know this to be false. The vulnerabilities are *still* there, they just broke our vulnerability checker and exploit demonstration. Not only that; there weren't two vulnerabilities, there were six. Hola also claims that "[vulnerabilities happen] to everyone". As we have pointed out from the start, the security issues with Hola are of such a magnitude that it cannot be attributed to 'oversight'; rather, it's straight-out negligence. They are not comparable to the others mentioned - they are much worse. We await a more transparent follow-up statement, and a real fix to the security issues.[/quote] I know this is really biased, but it seems like he's really not being all that honest. And I'm inclined to agree, since [URL="http://adios-hola.org/index.html#problem_rewriting_history"]their FAQ never actually had this info in it before they silently updated it[/URL], coupled with the edits they did to the Luminati site, which originally painted a much different picture of what the service is.
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