Free Ice-Cream

[Sam1]

.... And it's gone.

Actually this topic is about Kim Dotcom who is about to launch his new website: Mega. He gave out free Ice-Creams to Aucklanders (with 10 Willy Wonka like tickets to go to his launch party in some of them). Kim Dotcom's delicious PR | Stuff.co.nz

Pity that Auckland always get's everything. I live an hour and a half south in Hamilton. Anyway- thoughts on his new venture? It seems to be something designed to protect your file privacy. MEGA

 

[ford1001]

I'm not too sure about it, I guess we are going to have to wait until it launches to see how it turns out.

 

[xpl0iter]

I guess the working of it makes it pretty fail proof. I mean, If you are uploading something, the data gets (AES)encrypted at client side and gives you the key for decryption. Now the whole privacy depends on you. If you want to share the files, you will have to share the key along with the link. So that makes you responsible for your actions.

Now in case his servers gets raided again, not even with all the super computers they can decrypt the contents without the key. So that makes the data not important.

Now I have read like the customer details are not kept to an extend and the ip details are always in RAM. So in case they raid the server, once the Servers are offline, the data is gone. Another thing is no single server has the complete data, it has spread over several Virtual servers with contents on the RAM. So in case of any raids, they can simply shut down their other servers and boot again, so that all the data from the RAM will be lost.

I read it a few weeks back. So I am not sure if this is entirely true. My memory is not that good!

 

[Sam1]

That's pretty secure privacy as long as you personally aren't being monitored.... It will be interesting to see how the US decides to handle this new site. It doesn't look like he will be extradited to the US over the MegaUpload case (because of the enormity of the botch ups and the lack of good evidence). Where are his servers hosted? Edit- found out they're hosted in Germany.

I liked this Q&A in the FAQ:
Why base a cloud storage company in New Zealand, of all places?
Among other important reasons, New Zealand's native Māori name is "Aotearoa", which means "Land of the long white cloud".

 

[xpl0iter]

That's pretty secure privacy as long as you personally aren't being monitored.... It will be interesting to see how the US decides to handle this new site. It doesn't look like he will be extradited to the US over the MegaUpload case (because of the enormity of the botch ups and the lack of good evidence). Where are his servers hosted? Edit- found out they're hosted in Germany.

I liked this Q&A in the FAQ:
Why base a cloud storage company in New Zealand, of all places?
Among other important reasons, New Zealand's native Māori name is "Aotearoa", which means "Land of the long white cloud".

New ones or old ones?

 

[Sam1]

New ones or old ones?

What?

 

[xpl0iter]

Megaupload or the new mega.co.nz

 

[Sam1]

Megaupload or the new mega.co.nz

New site

 

[Martee]

Megaupload or the new mega.co.nz

Old ones were located in Virginia I think which is how they took him down. (This is from memory, I'm probably wrong )