Skorpinok Rover Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 (edited) Hi Friends I just registered for Internet " Fat Daddy " kim dotcom's new megaupload https://mega.co.nz, it took 2 mins for to create a/c. i would glad to see your opinion's regarding this ....! Thanks & Regards Skorpinok Edited January 24, 2013 by Mr-Protocol whitespace Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr-Protocol Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 It's full of security holes. He has pissed off "Anonymous" so attacks are likely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barry99705 Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 It's full of security holes. He has pissed off "Anonymous" so attacks are likely. He's pissed off a lot of people. I wouldn't touch that crap for anything. That and the dude is creepy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skorpinok Rover Posted January 24, 2013 Author Share Posted January 24, 2013 Yeah I agree with Mr.Protocol & Barry, the encryption system is also bad some say.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telot Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 I think I read something on hacker news last night on the plane about them taking it semi-opensource. Because he is so hated by so many, people are stepping up and poking holes through all their code to show what a blow hard he is, but mega is turning it around and fixing it right away. Its kinda cool how they're taking lemons and making it lemonade. I used megaupload all the time - back then it really did fix a problem I had (sending large files via email). Now I've got so many more legit options (dropbox, google drive, or just throw it on a VPS webserver) I really don't see a need for it anymore. Then again, 50GB FREE is pretty huge... telot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garda Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Steve Gibson is going to have a look at how they have done security on the next security now (he promised to do so on the last one). I'm looking forward to see what he has to say. This seems to have the potential to be a really great service. Assuming that the guy who runs it is really interested in privacy, it would be great to have something where users are in control of security, where he follows Steve Gibson's "trust no one" approach (rather than someone like the US phone companies or Myspace/Facebook who are proactive at giving the US government user's personal information), and that's really huge and free. They have posted https://mega.co.nz/#blog_3'>a response to some of the criticisms. From what I can tell it in fact looks pretty good. I think the way it works, (and I'm just reading through their blog and some other sites) is that there is a master key that sits on their server, but which is encrypted with a key that only the user has. The one problem identified is that assuming your connection to Mega is secure, Mega would be able to get to your master key if they sent you compromised javascript from their server which reported back to Mega once you gave it your personal key to unlock the master key. I don't think that is too big a deal, but assuming that you can also access your files through a public API and a 3rd party app that you trust, it's probably not a problem (that is if you don't want to trust Mega). That being said, it would probably be best to get the opinion of somebody who has spent more time on this than I have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hexophrenic Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 When you get down to it, Mega is protecting themselves from your content, not protecting your content from others. I don't care who the provider is or what you are storing, if you don't want the provider to read it, encrypt it yourself first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightStalker Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 I have to agree with telot, with the number of other legit options and better off the VPS/dedicated server route. I would rather take a bit more time setting up my own service than trusting someone else with my data. I use an opensource utility called Ajaxplorer and it has served all my needs for web and rsync uploading with me in full control. My $.02 but I can see him getting hacked and loosing users data someday :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
numb3rs Posted February 2, 2013 Share Posted February 2, 2013 Just thought I would throw this out there: Mega offers bug rewards and is up to the challenge. Below is the link to the rules https://mega.co.nz/#blog_6 Game On! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hfam Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 He's pissed off a lot of people. I wouldn't touch that crap for anything. That and the dude is creepy. What Barry and MrP said. No F!#$ing way I'm goin' anywhere near anything "Kim" puts together at any cost, free included. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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