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Re:Kim Dotcom puts up €10,000 bounty for first person to bre... by enoch_r on Friday February 01, 2013 @01:36AM (#5149573)
Why does Mega's security matter to Mega?

It seems like they've implemented encryption to provide plausible deniability that they're knowingly hosting pirated content, not to actually protect the privacy of users, the vast majority of whom will not be uploading confidential data.

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Re:Kim Dotcom puts up €10,000 bounty for first person to bre... by DanBC on Friday February 01, 2013 @02:49AM (#5149732)
Some pirates are paranoid. That's why Usenet providers[1] started offering encrypted Usenet.

[1] EG Giganews, 2006 (http://www.giganews.com/news/article/encrypted-usenet.html)

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Re:Kim Dotcom puts up €10,000 bounty for first person to bre... by aw3c2 on Friday February 01, 2013 @04:07AM (#5149915)
It's cheap advertisements for non-hackers. "It is so secure they een ran a contest to crack it!"
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