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Mega Defends Its Security Practices

Posted by Unknown on from the excuses-excuses dept.

Dangerous_Minds writes "Recently, Slashdot posted about how cloud storage company Mega was 'riddled' with security holes. Freezenet points out that Mega has issued a response to some of these criticisms including one which criticized its use of SSL. Mega responded saying that if you could break SSL, you could break things much more interesting than Mega."

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  1. Re:The biggest security hole by aaaaaaargh! · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Trust is a relative measure. I would trust Mega with storing personal copies of my favorite TV show, so I can e.g. access them on my tablet elsewhere. I wouldn't trust Mega with all my banking details, trade secrets, or highly sensitive government secrets, and would dare to say Mega has not been invented for that purpose...

  2. Its not about confidentiality. by jzilla · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The encryption is there for mega to maintain plausable deniabity about copyright infringement. If you want to keep something private don't upload it to mega. The question is not whether the encyrption scheme is sound, but whether it is reasonable in court to expect a company to break encryption (and most likely laws) to ferret out copyright violations.