[OPLINTECH] Thoughts on hola.org

[Jessica D. Dooley]

Thanks for clarifying; I had heard that enterprising malware designers were
taking advantage of Hola's PTP service to route malware traffic through
unsuspecting Hola peers. As you said, by design, Hola users are exit nodes
for others' traffic.

Jessica D. Dooley
IT Specialist
Adams County Public Library
937-587-2085
dooleyje at adamscolibrary.org

-----Original Message-----
From: Karl Jendretzky [mailto:karl at oplin.ohio.gov] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2015 1:04 PM
To: oplintech at lists.oplin.org
Subject: Re: [OPLINTECH] Thoughts on hola.org

I don't think Hola was spreading malware. The controversy with them centered
around people saying that they didn't understand that it's a P2P VPN
network, so under the free account your machine was being used as an exit
node for someone else. By design it puts users into the line of fire.

The kicker with VPN is that if people start blocking it, VPN services will
just move to port 443 where you can't block, so it doesn't really seem worth
it.

Karl Jendretzky
IT Manager
Ohio Public Library Information Network
(614) 728-1515
karl at oplin.ohio.gov

On 07/14/2015 12:36 PM, Jessica D. Dooley wrote:
> Hola.org, to the best of my knowledge, is a known spreader of malware 
> to unsophisticated users. However, blocking VPN services in general 
> would be a major and undeserved problem for some library patrons 
> conducting legitimate business - not to mention the security-conscious 
> user. Re: CIPA, I've interpreted libraries' obligation as filtration, 
> but not enforcement. For both these reasons, I do not block VPN ports 
> on our public wireless - or on patron computers. Just my thoughts!
>
> Jessica D. Dooley
> IT Specialist
> Adams County Public Library
> 937-587-2085
> dooleyje at adamscolibrary.org
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Neeper [mailto:neeperro at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2015 12:00 PM
> To: OPLINTECH
> Subject: [OPLINTECH] Thoughts on hola.org
>
> Any thoughts about http://hola.org/
> And all the others like it.
> Might be used as a CIPA bypass
>
> Ignore their use by patrons on their own device  ?
> Block them  for everybody?
>
> ???
>

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