Hmmm... interesting use of a domain hack.
mega.co.nz = "mega conz"
Kim Dotcom's New Mega Encrypted Cloud Storage
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Re: Kim Dotcom's New Mega Encrypted Cloud Storage
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
There aren't a bunch. Sugarsync and Dropbox only offer encrypted transport of your files. To actually encrypt the files/folders themselves requires a 3rd party piece. Mega offers everything wrapped in encryption, so presumably, his company will have plausible deniability (zero knowledge) of the files/folders that his service is being used for. From a technical standpoint, I also believe it makes de-duplication imposs…
Dropbox offers encrypted storage of files. ( https://www.dropbox.com/help/27/en ) > Dropbox uses modern encryption methods to both transfer and store your data. Sure, you're right that the difference is that dropbox holds the keys and mega doesn't. But you're also ignoring the fact that Dotcom has had considerable interest from law enforcement in the past, and that some companies have cooperated with law enforcement…
Encrypting files at rest means nothing if the data and keys aren't separate. It's just compliance/PR fluff.
Re: Kim Dotcom's New Mega Encrypted Cloud Storage
#83"Mega rocks with Google Chrome" "Warning: You are using an outdated browser, which adversely affects your file transfer performance. Please upgrade to Google Chrome." What is this bullshit? I'm using the latest Firefox. You are concerned about privacy, but you want to force me into using a propietary browser?
There are stating in their help page that Firefox allocates as much memory as the size of the downloaded files, which is not very convenient for this kind of application. > However, some legacy or technically inadequate browsers require the entire file to be stored in memory for downloading (Firefox, IE10, Opera), or for both downloading and uploading (IE9, Safari 5). At the end, the choice is yours but they are fair…
Well I don't like their tone, I don't need to be told that my browser is "outdated", especially if it's not, it works perfectly fine for basically the rest of the internet, including web dev tasks. If there is a very specific use case for which it's not the best, they should have said so. They should have checked whether I'm using IE6, or the latest FF version, and adapt their speech accordingly. I feel like an angry nerd right now, but I'm the user this time so I'm right and they are wrong.
Re: Kim Dotcom's New Mega Encrypted Cloud Storage
#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
Use SpiderOak[0] then. They assure strong zero-knowledge privacy and, while the client isn't technically open source, much of it is completely unobfuscated python. I definitely trust SpiderOak with my data. It also has more features than Dropbox or Drive... You can set syncs as between a subset of all devices, create an arbitrary number of syncs, and create some backups which aren't syncs too. It's quite nice. Anothe…
you forgot Wuala, which has a client for every OS (Java). http://www.wuala.com/en/learn/technology
I thought we learned our lesson about Java.
Re: Kim Dotcom's New Mega Encrypted Cloud Storage
#85Isn't it true that ANY web storage and file-sharing company could be raided and shut-down tomorrow? What's different between Megaupload and Dropbox or any of the others? If the Feds (and the Motion Picture industry) decide that Dropbox is hosting pirated works they could suffer the same fate, no? I am not focusing on Dropbox here. They are just a place holder for any storage/sharing service you'd care to name. I use…
The difference is, if Dropbox is down tomorrow, I still have all my data backed up on my computer(s).
You can have that with any provider: just don't delete the data after you've uploaded it.
Re: Kim Dotcom's New Mega Encrypted Cloud Storage
#86http://www.spideroak.com has been doing this for years. Nothing new to see here.
That application has a hilariously bad interface. Imagine how bad their backend is if they can't even add white space between their checkboxes.
http://images.macworld.com/images/article/2012/09/spideroak_...
Re: Kim Dotcom's New Mega Encrypted Cloud Storage
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Isn't it true that ANY web storage and file-sharing company could be raided and shut-down tomorrow? I'd say at its present state, MEGA servers are one of the least likely to be raided, considering the clusterfuck with the last raid. > if data loss is your concern, be sure to back it up locally That's a horrible advice. A company that does data storage professionally is much less likely to lose your data. If you hav…
That is far from horrible advice. And you are taking "locally" way too literally. You get to define what "locally" means. It definitely means "not trusting a third party with your important data". In my case it means that I keep three full backups of everything at three different locations and with various incremental and full-backup schedules. Old data that doesn't see a lot of activity is archived and even burned t…
> In my case it means that I keep three full backups of everything at three different locations
I think it's you who doesn't understand the meaning of "locally".
Re: Kim Dotcom's New Mega Encrypted Cloud Storage
#88Isn't it true that ANY web storage and file-sharing company could be raided and shut-down tomorrow? What's different between Megaupload and Dropbox or any of the others? If the Feds (and the Motion Picture industry) decide that Dropbox is hosting pirated works they could suffer the same fate, no? I am not focusing on Dropbox here. They are just a place holder for any storage/sharing service you'd care to name. I use…
Your data is safe with rsync.net, or any other provider that does not build a business model around "sharing" or "social" or web links or any other bullshit like that. It's not file storage that presents the political risk - it's letting idiot kids store things publicly, for free, because you are pursuing some "make it up on volume" business model that we all knew was broken 13 years ago. /rant
Is your rant intentionally implying that megaupload's business model bleeds money? Because they did just fine on that front.
Re: Kim Dotcom's New Mega Encrypted Cloud Storage
#89http://www.spideroak.com has been doing this for years. Nothing new to see here.
There's a bunch. Some are better than others. Here's a list, taken from ( http://www.kimpl.com/1297/secure-online-backup-file-sync-ser... ) which also has some reviews. ( https://www.sugarsync.com/ ) ( https://www.dropbox.com/ ) ( https://www.wuala.com/ ) ( https://www.syncplicity.com/ ) ( https://mozy.com/ ) As others say, there's a difference between syncing and hosting; between levels of security; between ease of…
Also AltDrive Online Backup (http://altdrive.com) is unlimited, easy, supports all major operating systems, and allows for a private encryption key [AES-256 CTR Mode encryption] so that customer's file data cannot be read by insiders. It's cheap too.
Re: Kim Dotcom's New Mega Encrypted Cloud Storage
#90Isn't it true that ANY web storage and file-sharing company could be raided and shut-down tomorrow? What's different between Megaupload and Dropbox or any of the others? If the Feds (and the Motion Picture industry) decide that Dropbox is hosting pirated works they could suffer the same fate, no? I am not focusing on Dropbox here. They are just a place holder for any storage/sharing service you'd care to name. I use…
Your data is safe with rsync.net, or any other provider that does not build a business model around "sharing" or "social" or web links or any other bullshit like that. It's not file storage that presents the political risk - it's letting idiot kids store things publicly, for free, because you are pursuing some "make it up on volume" business model that we all knew was broken 13 years ago. /rant
They probably just want to serve embedded video in a way that they can't be accused of contribution to copyright infringement. What they added is a layer of encryption. But can they do video playback on an encrypted stream? What in-browser video player works with encryption keys?