Setting the record straight
Hola, a popular VPN add-on for browsers, found itself bathed in hot water recently after it came to light that it had inadvertently sold users’ bandwidth to a botnet. Users were understandably pissed off that their resources were funding something malicious, and some users didn’t understand that by using the free service, they were agreeing to let Hola tap into their bandwidth. It all added up to a PR nightmare, and …read more
