widetail Posted February 2, 2013 Share Posted February 2, 2013 Kim Dotcom is offering a bounty of €10,000 (approx. US$13,580) to the first person who breaks its newly launched file storage service. Mega's launch last month was meet by criticism from multiple security researchers, Kim Dotcom announced a prize to the hackers last week. Kim tweeted,"#Mega‘s open source encryption remains unbroken! We’ll offer 10,000 EURO to anyone who can break it. Expect a blog post today."Dotcom believes the improvements made to his service’s security have made the site close to unbreakable, and Mega staff remain bullish about the site’s privacy qualities. Less than two weeks old, Mega passed 1 million registered users after just one day online, and is storing nearly 50 million files. Mega continues to face claims of illegal filesharing on the site. Dotcom claimed this week that only 0.001 percent of files on Mega have been removed for potential copyright infringement. The company blocked a third-party search engine from accessing publicly available files shared by Mega users. Dotcom earlier reported that the site would be “powered by legality and protected by the law”. The company revealed that about 20 lawyers have advised them on copyright violation.http://thehackernews.com/2013/02/win-13500-bounty-to-hack-kim-dotcoms.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
software182 Posted February 2, 2013 Share Posted February 2, 2013 break those 2048-bit encryption :O ? it would take forever... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
centserick2 Posted February 2, 2013 Share Posted February 2, 2013 what 2048-bit encryption? no idea about that encryption part lol. but ideally everything is crackable? really a great mind who could to that encryption lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonar Posted February 2, 2013 Share Posted February 2, 2013 Theres a key to every lock right?some one will grab that 10k Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
centserick2 Posted February 2, 2013 Share Posted February 2, 2013 how is that possible? educate me please about that encryption thing lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudrax Posted February 2, 2013 Share Posted February 2, 2013 2048 bit encryption! Have heard it for the first time :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alanon Posted February 2, 2013 Share Posted February 2, 2013 You'd think that a challenge that difficult would merit a higher reward. :Dunno: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiliBean Posted February 2, 2013 Share Posted February 2, 2013 I think people trying to hack Kim Dotcom's Mega encryption were so frustrated they took it out on Twitter. :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ande Posted February 2, 2013 Share Posted February 2, 2013 RSA 2048 was invented because there was theoretical possibility to break RSA 1024.This is public key algorithm, tested for many years by great scientists, and then published. Many tried to break it, failed.Many world govt. would give you million for that type of information, Kim is just peacocking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooperb Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 As with many encryption algorithms, it can be broken. All logs have an incredibly obvious but well hidden flaw which hackers can capitilaize on. The logs have probably already been broken :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
widetail Posted February 5, 2013 Author Share Posted February 5, 2013 You'd think that a challenge that difficult would merit a higher reward. :dunno:He is "MEGA" cheap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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