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The wonderful thing about the ridiculous level of Mega publicity combined with the availability of code is that Mega are getting this sort of excellent feedback

The wonderful thing about the ridiculous level of Mega publicity combined with the availability of code is that Mega are getting this sort of excellent feedback. Early evidence is that they are listening and responding. https://mega.co.nz/#blog_3 https://mega.co.nz/#blog_3 Let's see what the response is to this piece. I for one am not going to judge them too harshly if they keep listening and responding, as the product will just keep getting better. Sure they are blessed with I guess several million customers a few days after launch, but many here have also been through early product issues, albeit with far fewer customers. Like Mega, we learn and move on by fixing the problems. I guess Mega appreciate the value of this sort of feedback, and the attendant publicity. Edit: and just after publishing this, a tweet from Dotcom: "We welcome the ongoing #Mega security debate & will offer a cash prize encryption challenge soon. Let's see what you got ;-)"

spyder 14y ago
I agree, the big hype is paying off for them because many people looking into their code for free just to show how wrong they are but at the end they can fix these and then the criticism will not be true anymore. After the community "fixed" their front-end code they should open source the back-end too so they can get feedback on that too. After that the only thing that users should trust is that they will not alter the fixed codes.
- adcoelho 14y ago
  I guess it is the right time for such a review of how they work as they are on an early stage of deployment. They will benefit greatly security-wise from it.
  - badgar 14y ago
    For users who truly care about their data, the review should have been done before launch. But Mega isn't a site for governments or enterprises, it's for day-to-day users and file sharers. So I can't be too upset they decided to half-ass it and let the public fix their code.

spyder 14y ago

I agree, the big hype is paying off for them because many people looking into their code for free just to show how wrong they are but at the end they can fix these and then the criticism will not be true anymore. After the community "fixed" their front-end code they should open source the back-end too so they can get feedback on that too. After that the only thing that users should trust is that they will not alter the fixed codes.

adcoelho 14y ago
I guess it is the right time for such a review of how they work as they are on an early stage of deployment. They will benefit greatly security-wise from it.
- badgar 14y ago
  For users who truly care about their data, the review should have been done before launch. But Mega isn't a site for governments or enterprises, it's for day-to-day users and file sharers. So I can't be too upset they decided to half-ass it and let the public fix their code.