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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.

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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.

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.

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