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>Just encrypt your stuff beforehand.

This is such a facepalm moment. "This service is awesome, it does everything you need, it's reliable, it's safe, it's practical, and all you have to do is encrypt your files, share encryption keys, validate identities, and establish trust with the person you're sharing with. Also if you screw it up in any way, your file is public forever. It's so rad!"

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No, "here's a magnet link, and here's the matching 50-char password; don't share the password with anyone you don't want have file". Just because you can make security more complicated doesn't mean you're obligated to.

> Also if you screw it up in any way, your file is public forever.

You can literally say that for ANYTHING out there. Not sure what point you are trying to make. Let me guess, "Encryption is hard?". Well there's no free lunch.

Well there was free lunch when Mozilla's Send thing was running. Sharing the password in the URL hash was brilliant. But then it ran into all the same Mega.nz problems where people immediately use it to host malware.

Encryption is hard, which is why it's sad to see that when someone gets it right and nails the UX, it still gets ruined by the real world somehow.

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