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Kim Dotcom resigns as Mega director
- hobs 13y agoClearly like he says, he is only resigning to focus on a political career, and with dotcom's recent moves, that is unsurprising. IMO he will still be prodding the company forward. (Or whoever the idea person is behind MEGA)
- Mordor 13y ago"To use this website, cookies must be enabled in your browser. To enable cookies, follow the instructions for your browser below." -couriermail.com.au
- Achshar 13y agoThey are forced to do that by law.
- nwh 13y agoAustralian website, there's nothing forcing them to do anything.
- Achshar 13y agoMaybe the servers are in EU?
- nwh 13y agoNope, Sydney. person: News Limited country: AU
- mschuster91 13y agoAren't Australia and Great Britain "connected" by that Commonwealth stuff? I'm not an expert in international politics, but in case that Australia is bound to that cookie law in GB, that'd explain it.
- nwh 13y agoWe are, but their privacy laws have absolutely no bearing on Australia. At the moment the only control the queen has is the ability to indirectly act through a Govener General who can disband the current government at will. That's never happened and probably never will though. The whole cookie thing is just people flying off the handle anyway. One person put a warning so now everybody else does too.
- melbourne_mat 13y agoAll the news corp (rupert murdoch owned) web sites in Australia do this now. That's one reason I don't visit them!
- simias 13y agoHow's mega doing anyway? I haven't heard of it since the heavily hyped launch.
- slynux 13y agoIt is doing pretty well. Heard that at its current growth rate, it will reach 1 billion files uploaded by december. Sync apps on android is already launched. iOS and desktop client coming soon. They have launched an SDK which helps developers build apps based on Mega storage layer.
- BuildTheRobots 13y agoexcept for a couple of days ago when MegaPWN[1] came to light [1] http://nzkoz.github.io/MegaPWN/ http://nzkoz.github.io/MegaPWN/
- simias 13y agoI think by now everybody's already convinced that any javascript-based crypto is a joke.
- kamjam 13y agoIt's only a joke if you don't trust the js script. Just like any encryption or software is a joke if it is untrustworthy. Unless you have the source code, it is verified and you compiled yourself, then there is always a point of weakness there. You could say the same about SSL certs and HTTPS on any website, you are blindly trusting VeriSign (or cert authority).
- pyre 13y agoIt's not just a matter of trust. If you verified the JS, you could trust it. The issue is that it's very easy to inject things into an HTML page on the fly. It would be like trying to say that you could trust GnuPG, but you download it from the internet and install it every single time that you use it. That's a huge attack surface.
- zwdr 13y agoKimble's going into politics? That's going to be fun, he's predestined for a job where he can bullshit as much as possible.
- shiftpgdn 13y agoWhat a shame to have to surrender your baby to fight a group of bad actors causing a bureaucratic nightmare on the other side of the world.
- brazzy 13y agoGiven that the guy himself has a track record of massive bad-actorness, it's not exactly a shame. Assume that every single thing he does has the end goal of defrauding someone for his personal gain, and you won't be disappointed.
- Tyrannosaurs 13y agoYep, feels like one of those cases where you want everyone to lose somehow.
- CrankyPants 13y agoSyria!
- Tyrannosaurs 13y agoWould quite like the civilians to win there...
- smutticus 13y agoIf you believe in equal protection under the law the fact that he's an asshole is irrelevant.