Mega | Version 2.0 of Megaupload.com

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Kim Dotcom's first file-hosting site Megaupload was seized and shut down on 19 January 2012 by the United States Department of Justice, which began criminal cases against its owners.Mega launched on 19 January 2013 a year after Dotcom's original site was shut down.

Kim Dotcom reported on Twitter over 100,000 registered within the first hour, speculating that this may make Mega the fastest-growing startup in history. Kim Dotcom also reported on Twitter, that the "site" was extremely busy, and received thousands of user registrations per minute at the time of the tweet.Kim later reported Mega having more than 1 million registered users, and 60 uploads complete every second even though the site is still in its BETA.

"Free users get 50GB free storage"

Mega boasts about their web service :

"We are a dedicated group of technologists who were given the time, opportunity and Internet access to build an awesome cloud storage service that will help protect your privacy. We have programmed this Internet service from scratch in Auckland, New Zealand.

Unlike most of our competitors, we use a state of the art browser based encryption technology where you, not us, control the keys. Our design group includes Kim Dotcom, Mathias Ortmann, Bram van der Kolk, and Finn Batato.

Tony Lentino, owner of domain registrar Instra Corporation, is our Principal Visionary.

Our CEO, Vikram Kumar, has been Chief Executive of internetnz, a non-profit organization promoting the vision of an 'open and unconquerable Internet'. We hope you like it."

Encryption:

Data on the Mega service will be encrypted client-side using an advanced AES algorithm. Since Mega does not know the encryption keys to uploaded files, they cannot decrypt and view the content. Therefore, they cannot be responsible for the contents of uploaded files. Encrypting files allows them to work with a larger number of data hosting companies around the world, decreasing the likelihood of a Megaupload-style seizure of servers by one government."Each file will be kept with at least two different hosters, at least two different locations," and "That’s a great added benefit for us because you can work with the smallest, most unreliable [hosting] companies. It doesn’t matter because they can’t do anything with that data." said Dotcom in an interview.

According to Mega, the site "works with all major current browsers", but there can be some inconveniences to using browsers other than Google Chrome or Firefox. For example, with Internet Explorer 10, while a "solid, modern browser with blazing java-script performance"

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About the Author:

Adlin Seedon D’souza is pursuing Mechtronix engineering at TMA Pai Polytechnic, Manipal.

He was listed 2nd in the top 10 India ethical hackers under 20 yrs in the year 2010 selected by Techdefence inc. & by Mr Aditya Modha a renown Indian ethical hacker. He is now offering seminars, workshop and free security education for general public, in various colleges in and around Dakshina Kannada District.

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