

So we’ll put a check mark behind security, assuming that people come up with decent passwords of course. We believe within five years half of all Internet traffic will be encrypted with solutions born from our new API,” Dotcom told us previously. “Our easy to use one-click privacy feature will turn encryption into a mass product. With this tool Dotcom hopes to bring encryption into the mainstream. This works as promised and means that no one except the uploader of a file can see what it contains, unless he or she shares the private key with someone else.

Before going over to the obligatory screenshot tour we’ll take a look at the site’s most anticipated feature, encryption.Īs promised, Mega encrypts all uploaded files by default. TorrentFreak was lucky enough to be one of the early-birds and here we report our findings. Mortal souls have to wait another day, but today members of the “press” were given an early look Megaupload’s successor, Mega.
