MEGA
https://mega.co.nz/
MEGA provides free cloud storage with convenient and powerful always-on privacy. Claim your free 50GB now!
Mega, Ltd. is a cloud storage and file hosting service. The New Zealand-based website was launched on 19 January 2013 by Kim Dotcom, to coincide with the one-year anniversary of the seizure of his previous enterprise, the Megaupload.
yep…
What's the deal? It's always 50 Gb free.
Is this 50GB NZ or 50GB AU ???
Well, GB is "Great Britain", so… ;-)
50GB AU = 51,200MB NZ (assuming a 1024kb exchange rate)
:)
by Kim Dotcom
Not sure I'd trust my personal data with someone who has been convicted of computer fraud and data espionage…
Really? Seems like the perfect person to trust, as he's probably got more experience and knowledge than the rest.
From what I've heard of that, it's complete bullshit.
Nothing worse than what the NSA are doing/have done. ;)
And I'd much rather trust a known criminal, who more than likely has data he wants to hide from the NSA, with his own encryption schemes.. Kimdotcom will have much less interest in what I upload than any Government agency!
The stench of criminal activity hangs heavy around his past. I'm on his side against the yanks but it's hard to be much of a fan.
He and the company do not have your personal data. They have ciphertext uploaded by you.
This is one of the only cloud providers where they do not have a master key to decrypt files uploaded by you.
The only risk is they lose your data. Backup in 3 seperate places is a good strategy.
He and the company do not have your personal data.
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The only risk is they lose your data.
How can they lose your data if they do not have your data ?
Failing at reading & copy/paste …
They have ciphertext uploaded by you.
eg. They don't have "JV's Love Letters" - they have "OIRU#$*(J@()!JDS". Garbage to them without the decryption keys.
Garbage to them without the decryption keys.
How do I know that Kim Dotcom can't hack into my Love Letters if he has access to the data ?
It wouldn't be the first time he's hacked…
Schmitz acquired a reputation in his native Germany after having claimed to have bypassed the security of NASA, the Pentagon and Citibank under the name of Kimble
They don't have "JV's Love Letters"
These would be sooo popular…
Why post garbage about subjects you know nothing about?
The Mega cryptography model is one of the only cloud drives that are as secure as the device you're using to connect to it.
The client does not send your password, or any derivative or hash of it. Read that again. One more time.
There is no way Mega, or anyone else, knows what you upload. It's all ciphertext. They and nobody else can decrypt it without using brute force, or a currently unknown exploit to crack AES128. If an exploit exists, this would be a much bigger issue than Heartbleed.
Have a read
https://blog.fortinet.com/Security%20Research/DotComs-Mega-E…
Their api is public as is the browser plugin. Early versions has some poor code but that's been resolved for over a year.
If you want a secure cloud drive, Mega is one of the very few honest companies.
Hi guys. Just out of curiosity, what kind of data you gonna store there ?
No, seriously, do you think anyone would be really interested in your life ?
OR do you store your bank account details with online passwords ?
I have such data on paper only (with a few back up copies located at different locations) stored securely.
I hope one of them is a fireproof safe.
Not really.
But I cannot imagine a situation when three places 10km apart would burn down at once.
In case of WWIII probably but then cloud servers (and comms cables) will burn down first. And probably in that armageddon style scenario you would bother more about other things.
Seriously if you gonna lose your online banking passwords, you can restore them within a couple of weeks.
But I cannot imagine a situation when three places 10km apart would burn down at once.
In case of WWIII probably…
Or a particularly bad bushfire season. Luckily though, this is Australia and such things just don't happen here…
Nuclear launch codes.
Shall we play a game?
Yes, within a keepass database.
Multiple layers of security when possible :)
i use my mega account for uploading large "linux isos" to friends (never publicly list them, strictly only to close known friends) as well as backup for my android fone. with the mega android app it uploads them automatically either straight away or if you set it only when on wifi (aka home network without the small upload quotas of fone plans) or even only wifi/charging
Baidu is 2tb free storage… tb, not gb..
But it is in chinese
Storing data with the Chinese…. Seems like a good idea! I mean, its not like the Chinese government have ridiculously, overly powerful control over every company that operates out of China or anything like that!!
And just what exactly are they going to do with your 2TB of personal photos, videos, etc.?
Assuming that's all you put up… And they could do whatever the hell they want with it. You only have to look back at previous issues to see what they could do - Huawei, Google, etc.
Yep, they could do whatever the hell they want with it. Not sure how in the world I'm going to suffer from some company in China having access to my family photos.
Seems to be the reply whenever a topic of this type comes up - closely related to the "I've got nothing to hide" line.
You should value your privacy more, because you'll miss it when it's gone. :)
It's a standard reply because the paranoia many people have around privacy of things that really don't matter is ridiculous.
Aggregation of small bits of seemingly innocuous data is what's used to build profiles.
You can just start with sharing some of your passwords with us, though. :)
This. So much this.
Bad relationship breakup.
A stalker
A legal situation
Your browsing history becoming public
Your FB getting hacked, password changed and everything made public forever.
Anywhere you need to have your privacy protected will be affected by everything you share in an insecure way.
Never put anything on the internet you wouldn't want the entire world to see.
The world is welcome to all my ciphertext
Mega is one of very few companies attempting to prevent unauthorised access to your data.
The world is welcome to all my ciphertext
Aggregation of small bits of seemingly innocuous data is what's used to build profiles.
Once again, just what is going to happen if some company in China is able to build a profile of me?
Never put anything on the internet you wouldn't want the entire world to see.
Agreed, so once again, why should I care if a company in China has access to my family photos & videos??
You don't need to care, buddy. No need to justify your behaviour either, since you don't care. Everything is just fine.
Dropbox or Mega
Condi or Dotcom
black or white
hmmm decisions
I do use the cloud only for documents which are not important, like copies of articles in magazines etc. It won't matter if somebody reads it as well as if it is lost.
Private and important data is ONLY on my laptop copied daily to an external disk drive, which is kept in a fireproof safe when not in use.
MEGA is great, but it's been 50GB free ever since it launched, so this is not fit for a post.
I agree, this deal has been posted 5 months ago and I believe this post belong to the forum just like the original post
Isn't this always available?