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Mega users: If you're hacked once, you're hacked for life
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2013-01-21 10:42
Kim Dotcom's launch of Mega has touted the big tagline of being bigger, better, faster, stronger, and safer, but while Dotcom promises 128 bits of AES encryption and the use of 2048 bits of RSA public/private key infrastructure, I'm not too convinced about the last aspect of his sell: the safety.
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Face to face with Kim Dotcom as he launches Mega, talks about Megakey and the future of free content
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2013-01-21 01:51
If there’s one place that you want to be for the launch of Mega.co.nz, it’s within Kim Dotcom’s mansion. That’s precisely where I’ve been today. Sure we knew that Dotcom was larger than life, but actually being at the mansion is a different story. Elaborate statues and expensive pieces of art, giant kitchen sized fish tanks and sprawling pools. It’s an incredible sight.
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Mega-Launch: A fake FBI raid, dancing girls - oh, and human rights!
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2013-01-21 01:47
Kim Dotcom may see himself as being at war with Hollywood, but the man has quite a sense of theatrics himself. The show he put on for the world tonight at his mansion outside Auckland was audacious and loud, featuring a Maori-themed musical performance by Tiki Taane, a raid re-enactment complete with helicopters marked "FBI," and dancing girls clad in military-style dress (but with miniskirts). That's how Dotcom announced his new service, Mega, to the world.
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US rebuffed in effort to get copies of Canadian Megaupload servers
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2013-01-17 02:45
An Ontario judge has refused a US request for unfettered access to the data on Megaupload servers hosted in Canada. The ruling is another sign that overseas courts are not giving US officials the degree of deference they've grown accustomed to in this case under US law.
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DOJ Claims It Did Not Entrap Megaupload
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2013-01-15 03:01
The U.S. Department of Justice did not mislead a court and attempt to entrap file storage site Megaupload on copyright infringement charges, the agency said in a new filing in the case.
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