Kim Dotcom’s 'Skype Killer’
Kim Dotcom Launches MegaChat
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Last week, Kim Dotcom launched his voice and video chat
service ‘MegaChat’ which was hailed as the ‘Skype Killer’ in the fallout of its
launch.
One of the biggest features that MegaChat offers is it’s
2048bit encryption key, which means that it’ll be very difficult for anyone to
get access to your chat logs and conversations.
So this is more digital encryption? David Cameron’s probably
going out his mind. We all know how much he dislikes things when they’re
encrypted.
I’m sure you all already know about Kim Dotcom and the
Megaupload saga. If you don’t I’d have a search
for it. It was a long fought court battle involving privacy and piracy and
everything in-between. I don’t think Kim will ever truly see the end of it.
Following on from the shutdown of Megaupload, Kim released
his new file sharing service ‘Mega.’
Kim has always promised that security of its users is always
a top priority behind Mega. Hence the encryption behind the new chat feature.
You can currently use Megachat directly through your browser and doesn't
require any download or installation. Mega does offer some browser extensions
to reduce loading times and strengthen security, however the extensions are
only for Firefox and Chrome.
Ever the enemy of the National Security Agency (NSA), who
aren't exactly the apple of America’s eye at the moment, Megachat promises that
it’s encrypted to a degree that not even the NSA can access it. Not too shabby, but does it have a thumb print scanner? Those things are amazing.
Fact: #Mega encryption has never been broken. #Mega user passwords have never been compromised. Your files & chats are safe with #Mega.
— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) January 23, 2015
This statement comes after news that Skype recently caved in
and allowed the NSA to access accounts and spy on people's chat logs and calls
to monitor for suspicious behaviour.
Mega has already fallen into the spotlight for not
being secure as promised. But Kim Dotcom has assured users that those
issues were only due to the service being in Beta. Mega now offers ‘Bounties’
for those who can find security flaws.
For 2 years #Mega has offered security bounties to anyone who can crack our encryption. We're still waiting for someone to collect.
— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) January 23, 2015
Kim claims that Megachat has gone viral with over a million
invitations sent by users. I don’t think we’ll see the impact of Megachat for a
while though. I also think it will take a bit more that offers of privacy to
draw people away from Skype. Though he is promising mobile apps for MegaChat to come soon, which could be interesting.
#Mega has over 15 million registered users now. I think #MegaChat could elevate us to 100+ million users by the end of 2015. #Prediction
— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) January 22, 2015
After all, we are creatures of habit in the digital age.
Tom Welby
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