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Didn't Kim Dotcom say you can't trust Mega anymore?

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-07/31/kim-dotcom-me...

I frankly never trusted Mega in the first place. Their claims were always grandiose and absurd and their business model (back as Megaupload) was always a bit sketchy.

When I want secure chat, I use Signal from WhisperSystems. Yeah it has usability issues, but it's obvious it's hard to do really secure and secret chat.

If Kim Dotcom says you can't trust something does that mean you can? https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Dotcom#Werdegang

Nice! For those that don't know, Kim Schmitz / Kimble(now Dotcom), sold out his fellow warez peers to the copyright lawyer Günter Freiherr von Gravenreuth. Like the wild West he was supposedly paid per head.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/04/17/where-k...

Not mentioned in the article is his involvement in the AT&T calling card fraud conspiracy (estimated losses $20 million) in the early '90's. It is that case that put him on the US Secret Service's radar and he's been on it ever since.

See also his Security Charlatans page on Attrition.org:

http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/kimble/

not to mention having made most of his cash with insider trading in Germany.

Which wasn't illegal at that point, though.

yepp indeed. that just made me think ... a lot of things weren't ... such as bribing gov officials when participating in tenders (example Siemens and others learned the hard way). Lot of things seemed to have become illegal in Germany just over the past 20 years. Now they're even trying to curb our creativity when writing software for exhaust emmissions test /s

Author of the Wired article seems to think that Anonymous Coward is an actual Slashdot user :)

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