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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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Google has a tradition of perpetrating hoaxes, especially on April Fools' Day, as well as various Easter eggs.

Here are Some of the top Google Easter eggs I collected from the Internet ;)

1.Google Gravity

Quite simply, this is Earth-bound physics “infused” into Google’s interface: with “gravity,” the visual elements you commonly find on the interface, such as the search bar, the “I’m feeling lucky” button, and everything else fall down like a stack of bricks on the bottom of the browser. You can even “pick up” and “throw” the search results at the “walls” or just simply mess with them. CLICK HERE TO SEE GOOGLE GRAVITY IN ACTION!

2.Let me Google that for you

LMGTFY or Let Me Google That for You is a somewhat tongue-in-cheek service made for those of us who are too lazy to use Google. Upon entering a search query, instead of results, you get a link that you can then mail to your lazy recipient.

Clicking on the link launches the actual search: thus, in this perigrinatory manner, you have Googled it for them. All they have to do is click the link. A beautiful example of technology making things more complicated for us.CLICK HERE TO SEE LMGTFY IN ACTION!

3.Google Chuck Norris

There was a time when the internet raged with all imaginable Chuck Norris jokes. So naturally, Google itself dipped its hand in the meme with the Chuck Norris Google Trick. Search “Chuck Norris,” and Google returns a familiar Chuck Norris joke: “Google won’t search for Chuck Norris because it knows you don’t find Chuck Norris, he finds you.”

CLICK HERE TO SEE Chuck Norris IN ACTION!

4.God on Google Earth

Sometime in 2010, people around the world went “God crazy” when Google Earth supposedly had taken a “snapshot” of “divine beings” while crossing a mountain zone in Switzerland. There’s no definite answer, of course, but the buzz it created was testament to how the entire online community could get excited over a blurry photo, like they do with pictures of cats.

5.Google Pac-man

A treasure-trove of fun Google tricks won’t be complete without mentioning Google’s Pac-Man doodle.

On May 22, 2010, the 30th anniversary of the classic game, people around the world woke up to a search engine sporting an actually playable mini-version of Pac-Man. And naturally, hundreds of millions of people spent hours playing the game, basically slowing down productivity to a halt.

CLICK HERE to see PAC-MAN in action!

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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.

Catch him on Fb: FB/seed0n

Read other articles written by him, CLICK HERE

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