Also: Google offers unlimited photo storage, how you can pretend to be a destructive cat, and YouTube celebrates its 10th anniversary. Hola Is Using Your Bandwidth to Create a Mercenary Botnet Remember Hola? It’s a simple browser extension most tech blogs have recommended for watching geoblocked content – and apparently it’s been selling bandwidth to the highest bidder. I myself mentioned it’s an easy way to access region-blocked content back in 2013 – most tech sites pointed it out. It’s always been known that the free version of Hola routes traffic through other users. This means that if you’re an American...
Read the full article: Hola is Basically a Botnet, Congress Redirected to Nude Photos, & More… [Tech News Digest]
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