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Kim Dotcom launches end-to-end encrypted audio and video chat service

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Re: Kim Dotcom launches end-to-end encrypted audio and video chat service

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Post by busterarm »

specialp wrote: post #16
unimportant wrote: post #4

He was a professional conman (before he made money with mega by actively pushing pirated content) known for making false claims, so be weary about the reliability of his encryption claims.

People forget this. I remember in the early 2000s when he was known as Kimble and ran pump and dump scams, and had a website of him on private jets and fancy cars partying with his illicit gains. Now he is known as some anti authority hero to many.

People are really poor judges of character and people are so desperate for a certain kind of hero that anyone who appears to fill those shoes will and you can't persuade them with facts.

Re: Kim Dotcom launches end-to-end encrypted audio and video chat service

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Post by Mandatum »

userbinator wrote: post #20
Aoyagi wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Skype is getting more and more useless with every iteration. Encryption is gone, file transfer first stopped to recognize direct LAN connection between clients and now some of the files get stored "in the cloud", the design is just atrocious, advertisements annoying (thank gods for workarounds). And yesterday my 5.9 installation stopped working, so I have to put up with that.

Encryption is gone Do you have a link to that? The last time I looked at the news, Skype was using SSL to servers so Microsoft could see the data transferred, and while that's not ideal, it's still very different from your implication that everything in the protocol is now transmitted in the clear.

I think he's talking about government backdoors, whereas a service like MegaChat could potentially offer true end-to-end chat..

However this doesn't seem to be the case as A. you're unable to upload your own public key, and B it's still client-side JS. A subpoena would force them to pass on your session logs, encryption keys, etc.

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Post by Chol »

unimportant wrote: post #4

He was a professional conman (before he made money with mega by actively pushing pirated content) known for making false claims, so be weary about the reliability of his encryption claims.

If you do not trust him, you can compile your own client: https://github.com/meganz

Re: Kim Dotcom launches end-to-end encrypted audio and video chat service

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Post by byEngineer »

busterarm wrote: post #11
byEngineer wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good thing we have the Government to protect us. At least someone we can trust with all we do online.

No, the point is not to trust anybody (more realistically: vigorously evaluate your Web of Trust), but you should especially not trust someone who is known to be untrustworthy.

Don't say that! The Government will protect us from the scum Kim or whatever his name. Be a bit more appreciative!

And in all seriousness I hate this world where the Government can do whatever it wants to you including spying you on all you do online, but you's rather get pissed off because of a guy pirating software. Get some perspective!

Re: Kim Dotcom launches end-to-end encrypted audio and video chat service

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Post by busterarm »

byEngineer wrote: post #24
busterarm wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, the point is not to trust anybody (more realistically: vigorously evaluate your Web of Trust), but you should especially not trust someone who is known to be untrustworthy.

Don't say that! The Government will protect us from the scum Kim or whatever his name. Be a bit more appreciative! And in all seriousness I hate this world where the Government can do whatever it wants to you including spying you on all you do online, but you's rather get pissed off because of a guy pirating software. Get some perspective!

Who said that I care about him pirating software? I'm just as mad about government spying but that doesn't mean that I put my privacy in the trust of a known conman.

Just because he is opposed to the US government doesn't make him a hero.

The service he is advertising is valuable, but he's duplicitous. Why should I trust him?

Re: Kim Dotcom launches end-to-end encrypted audio and video chat service

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Post by Aoyagi »

userbinator wrote: post #20
Aoyagi wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Skype is getting more and more useless with every iteration. Encryption is gone, file transfer first stopped to recognize direct LAN connection between clients and now some of the files get stored "in the cloud", the design is just atrocious, advertisements annoying (thank gods for workarounds). And yesterday my 5.9 installation stopped working, so I have to put up with that.

Encryption is gone Do you have a link to that? The last time I looked at the news, Skype was using SSL to servers so Microsoft could see the data transferred, and while that's not ideal, it's still very different from your implication that everything in the protocol is now transmitted in the clear.

Sure, first websearch result [1] , although I was talking about EFF's evaluation [2]. Of course there is -some- encryption, not plaintext, but it was better before Microsoft came in, or so I hear. But I worded the original post poorly, sorry about that.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/think-your-skype-mes...

[2] https://www.eff.org/secure-messaging-scorecard

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