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Mega could be the twentieth to do this and do it badly, with the amount of media attention Kim Dotcom is getting they would still have 50% of the market share h
by jonemo 14y ago
Mega could be the twentieth to do this and do it badly, with the amount of media attention Kim Dotcom is getting they would still have 50% of the market share half an hour after launch.
- rarrrrrr 14y agoIndeed. For those of us who have been in this industry for years, the whole situation feels Condescending Wonka-esque. "Oh, you're creating a zero-knowledge cloud service? Tell us all about how revolutionary it is." (I cofounded SpiderOak in 2007.) I'm glad it's happening though. The industry needs more awareness of privacy and more choices for privacy respecting products. This will undoubtedly grow the market for cloud services with meaningful encryption.
- bascule 14y agoDoesn't really matter if you're "first" with a cryptosystem if it's horribly, horribly insecure either. Putting out badly designed cryptographic software like this is just irresponsible.