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posted by janrinok on Monday September 08 2014, @05:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the key-without-a-lock dept.

Mega cloud drive now has a sync client for linux. I was given beta access to it (thanks Mathias!) and have been using it for the last few days.

I have had no problems with it and reported mostly UI problems (if you log out, the sync client continues to run, but when logging back in the sync client icon would be gone: inexperienced users may not realize it is still running and try to start it again which would fail).

Pick your distro (currently debian, fedora, opensuse and ubuntu ready) and download for free! (Or not. Your choice!)

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by VLM on Monday September 08 2014, @05:44PM

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Monday September 08 2014, @05:44PM (#90873)

    Can someone complete this line for me:

    This service is just like Dropbox except for ....

    Announcing yet another cloud drive in 2014 is about as exciting as announcing yet another web hoster service in '98 or so. Oh another? Yawn. Unless there's something real special about this one. Which might be true. Or maybe not.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 08 2014, @05:53PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 08 2014, @05:53PM (#90881)

      I think the history of Mr. Dotcom makes this potentially interesting. Fool me once...

      Question: is the client free software? (Yes I'm a lazy person)

      • (Score: 5, Informative) by stderr on Monday September 08 2014, @05:59PM

        by stderr (11) on Monday September 08 2014, @05:59PM (#90887) Journal

        MEGA currently provides a multi-platform software development kit, and we have plans to release the source code to MEGAsync under an open-source license.

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        • (Score: 2) by melikamp on Monday September 08 2014, @08:08PM

          by melikamp (1886) on Monday September 08 2014, @08:08PM (#90954) Journal
          Yup. So.... What is the freaking holdup? I don't get this Kim guy. Seems righteous at times, but pushes binary blobs just like the worst of them.
    • (Score: 2) by Tork on Monday September 08 2014, @05:59PM

      by Tork (3914) Subscriber Badge on Monday September 08 2014, @05:59PM (#90888)
      Does Dropbox have a Linux client?
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      • (Score: 2) by opinionated_science on Monday September 08 2014, @06:08PM

        by opinionated_science (4031) on Monday September 08 2014, @06:08PM (#90892)

        yes, with a nice binary blob. Don't run it except chroot or perhaps in its own VM.

        • (Score: 2) by Tork on Monday September 08 2014, @06:19PM

          by Tork (3914) Subscriber Badge on Monday September 08 2014, @06:19PM (#90897)
          Why's that?
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          • (Score: 4, Interesting) by opinionated_science on Monday September 08 2014, @06:36PM

            by opinionated_science (4031) on Monday September 08 2014, @06:36PM (#90907)

            can't trust binary blobs unless totally necessary (e.g. Nivida - looking at you...:-( )

            It is a very agressive daemon that trys to upload rapidly. But since it is closed source, I have no idea what it is uploading.

            Therefore, it seems prudent to run it as nobody in a place it can see nothing except what you want to share.

            A VM would guarantee that "updates" don't get out of their box.

            • (Score: 2) by Tork on Monday September 08 2014, @06:38PM

              by Tork (3914) Subscriber Badge on Monday September 08 2014, @06:38PM (#90909)
              Do you actually check the source code of everything you download?
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              • (Score: 4, Insightful) by opinionated_science on Monday September 08 2014, @06:42PM

                by opinionated_science (4031) on Monday September 08 2014, @06:42PM (#90911)

                occasionally!! But the community does it , hence, heartbleed got spotted and fixed.

                But really , binary blobs are a problem. Video hardware is a security hole, but most modern distros don't let the video talk to the network.

                But software that is supposed to upload personal files to a corporations website?? Come on. You can't be paranoid enough!!!

                Encryption for each file is plausible, but my experience is that initial paranoia leads to tranquil usage...

                • (Score: 2) by Tork on Monday September 08 2014, @06:44PM

                  by Tork (3914) Subscriber Badge on Monday September 08 2014, @06:44PM (#90912)

                  But software that is supposed to upload personal files to a corporations website?? Come on. You can't be paranoid enough!!!

                  That's actually why I'm asking. You shouldn't be uploading personal files, period. I could understand not wanting to let something like that get out of control and start grabbing things it's not supposed to, but if you want my opinion your paranoia should extend further back far enough that it shouldn't matter whether you can view the source code or not.

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                • (Score: 3, Informative) by Tork on Monday September 08 2014, @06:51PM

                  by Tork (3914) Subscriber Badge on Monday September 08 2014, @06:51PM (#90914)
                  Hmm I'm a bit of a jerk, actually containing it in a VM does reflect the philosophy of what I'm saying. I apologize.
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                  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 08 2014, @08:21PM

                    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 08 2014, @08:21PM (#90963)

                    Hmm I'm a bit of a jerk

                    +1 understated/insightful

                • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 08 2014, @10:11PM

                  by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 08 2014, @10:11PM (#91007)

                  1) The "community" did not find Heartbleed. It was found by outside security researchers. As with GNuTLS and the Debian OpenSSL fiasco the "community" introduced the security issue and others had to clean up the mess.
                  2) Heartbleed was found years after being introduced.
                  3) Heartbleed was found through binary and traffic analysis not looking at the source code.

    • (Score: 1) by digitalderbs on Monday September 08 2014, @06:14PM

      by digitalderbs (1314) on Monday September 08 2014, @06:14PM (#90894)
      I was curious about this too, so I looked it up.

      This service is just like Dropbox except for client-side encryption and the data is presumably stored in New Zealand giving extra hurdles to disclosures.

      wiki link. [wikipedia.org]
      • (Score: 2) by frojack on Monday September 08 2014, @08:54PM

        by frojack (1554) on Monday September 08 2014, @08:54PM (#90980) Journal

        Is this the same Mega that had their servers seized [wikipedia.org] by the US even though they were in New Zealand or is it a different Mega in a different New Zealand?

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        • (Score: 2) by Geotti on Monday September 08 2014, @11:58PM

          by Geotti (1146) on Monday September 08 2014, @11:58PM (#91032) Journal

          It's mega conz this time.

        • (Score: 1) by wantkitteh on Tuesday September 09 2014, @10:43AM

          by wantkitteh (3362) on Tuesday September 09 2014, @10:43AM (#91166) Homepage Journal

          No, that was Megaupload, this is a different entity founded by the same peeps, now using technical methods to remove any incentive to seize the servers.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 08 2014, @06:35PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 08 2014, @06:35PM (#90906)

      ... the founder is a daily news spectacle [torrentfreak.com].

    • (Score: 2) by cykros on Monday September 08 2014, @07:19PM

      by cykros (989) on Monday September 08 2014, @07:19PM (#90926)

      ...They give you a lot more space for free, and use encryption (which you really shouldn't rely on for your own security) such that they're not actually made aware of anything on the site due to its storage in plaintext, thus covering their own asses (and making it more suitable for piracy than some of the others). I suppose it probably only made news here because it's Kim Dotcom's reincarnated Megaupload. And it's not new; the site has been up a few years now, the news here is that there's a linux sync client.

      Idk, cloud raging is all good, for lots of reasons, but if you've ever gone "I have this 50 gb file i need to transfer but don't have a server set up", then a free Mega account comes in handy. Afaik (and I hope someone will tell me why this is wrong), Mega simply has the largest amount of free storage out of any of the other providers.

    • (Score: 2) by evilviper on Monday September 08 2014, @07:21PM

      by evilviper (1760) on Monday September 08 2014, @07:21PM (#90929) Homepage Journal

      Can someone complete this line for me:

      This service is just like Dropbox except for ....

      ...strong cryptographic security built-in (if you forget your password, your files are long-gone)

      ...low price (first 50GBytes are free).

      ...being operated by someone who has shown desire and ability to fight back against DMCA take-downs and the US copyright cabal at large.

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      • (Score: 2) by frojack on Monday September 08 2014, @09:52PM

        by frojack (1554) on Monday September 08 2014, @09:52PM (#90997) Journal

        ...who never the less had his servers seized in the past leaving legitimate customers high and dry without access to their data.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 12 2014, @08:12AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 12 2014, @08:12AM (#92320)

      This service is just like Dropbox except for .... your data never leaves your computer unencrypted, and only you have your decryption keys.

      This is the rarest of rare features in cloud storage, and the competitors offering it are all crap for one reason or another. JugleDisk imploded after Rackspace bought it, and is only now being resurrected so far Windows centric. SpiderOak has an awful UI and is comparatively expensive.

      Other options? If Mega are actually capable of releasing decent quality open source software and have their crypto stand up to public scrutiny (I'm not holding my breath), they could win the market with a campaign on how insecure all your data is elsewhere, *by design*.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Monday September 08 2014, @06:33PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday September 08 2014, @06:33PM (#90905) Journal

    I'm so happy to see yet another service offering the opportunity to expose my data to intelligence services, online hackers/crackers and criminals, worldwide.

    Sorry folks - I just can't see the point in storing my stuff on a server over which I have no control. Worse, to communicate with that server, I have to use compromised backbone services.

    To be fair, if all you have to store is music, movies, and copies of software programs, it's probably alright. But, I'll keep all my personal data right here, in my house, on my own hard drives, where I can control it.

    • (Score: 2) by Sir Garlon on Monday September 08 2014, @07:28PM

      by Sir Garlon (1264) on Monday September 08 2014, @07:28PM (#90932)

      I do the same thing for most personal data. For irreplaceable stuff like wedding photos and my coding projects, I keep a backup copy in the cloud. There are several kinds of risk -- privacy is one, data loss is another.

      The real pain in the neck are encryption keys, which both need to be private and utterly screw you if they get lost. For now I have a half-assed solution of copying them to a thumb drive I keep in a safe deposit box, but that's a lot of work because every time I create a new key I have to take a trip to the bank.

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      • (Score: 2) by opinionated_science on Monday September 08 2014, @07:54PM

        by opinionated_science (4031) on Monday September 08 2014, @07:54PM (#90945)

        private key in the vault, public key at home. Fewer trips to the bank. Say once a year, for the new private key...

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by evilviper on Monday September 08 2014, @07:29PM

      by evilviper (1760) on Monday September 08 2014, @07:29PM (#90934) Homepage Journal

      I'm so happy to see yet another service offering the opportunity to expose my data to intelligence services, online hackers/crackers and criminals, worldwide.

      Your rant should be aimed elsewhere.

      MEGA has end-to-end encryption. Your data is as secure as the strength of the password you choose. The down-side being that you permanently lose access to your files if you forget your password.

      You might as well be complain about how insecure e-mail is, on a story about Lavabit, Silent Circle, etc.

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      • (Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Monday September 08 2014, @11:29PM

        by Nerdfest (80) on Monday September 08 2014, @11:29PM (#91027)

        If it's not open-source, any privacy is only theoretical.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 08 2014, @11:35PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 08 2014, @11:35PM (#91029)

      Honestly, I find it odd that people have so much personal data that is hard to throw on even a CD, or other fairly small media, and throw in a safe deposit box if you want good offsite backups. 50 gigs worth? Not terribly likely, at least for certain definitions of "personal".

      Otoh, if you're looking for a place to store the hours and hours of amateur media you've composed (music, film, pics, etc), other artwork, perhaps some open source projects...it's not a terrible thing to be able to make use of.

      The cloud's biggest problem comes in where people forget to translate "cloud" into its english meaning of "someone else's computer". There are definitely things I wouldn't feel comfortable storing on someone else's computer (say, my neighbors), and for those things, they don't go to the cloud (or if they do, they go to the cloud only after being encrypted by some means I've deemed appropriate...let's hope I know my encryption methods). However, the vast majority of data on my system, including that which I'd really rather keep in case of a system crash, fire in my apartment, whatever, is totally reasonable to leave with a cloud storage provider (though anyone trusting this as their sole backup should probably go back and read about what happened with MEGA's predecessory, Megaupload...).

      Basically, it is what it is. Don't buy the marketing hype, don't replace your backup system with a cloud based system (though if your backups aren't sensitive or are adequately encrypted, redundancy might not hurt), and obviously don't post anything up there that in the form you post it is something that would make you shit your pants if it showed up on the front page of your local newspaper.

      Ample privacy and security measures are good. Entirely avoiding the notion of "sharing" on a worldwide network where sharing is the entire point, however, seems to be a bit overzealous in some way...

      • (Score: 2) by ticho on Tuesday September 09 2014, @08:29AM

        by ticho (89) on Tuesday September 09 2014, @08:29AM (#91142) Homepage Journal

        Entirely avoiding the notion of "sharing" on a worldwide network where sharing is the entire point, however, seems to be a bit overzealous in some way...

        There's nothing overzealous in not wanting to share private data. Emphasis on "private". I will share what *I* want, not everything, and not what *they* want me to (for any value of "they").

      • (Score: 2) by zafiro17 on Tuesday September 09 2014, @08:32AM

        by zafiro17 (234) on Tuesday September 09 2014, @08:32AM (#91143) Homepage

        It can happen. Among my "important data" are scanned versions of all important papers (birth certificate, marriage license, passports, etc.), the text manuscripts to seven books I've published (different editions of three books, more precisely), dozens of unpublished short stories, and copies of everything I've published on my website. It could easily fit on a CD, and I do burn periodic backups.

        Just important are my pictures and music, and that no longer fits easily on burned media. I stress a lot about it.

        Yes, I've got some movies and stuff too, and I couldn't be bothered in the slightest to back it up. If I lose that stuff, I'll get more, and maybe different stuff. I won't shed a tear over it.

        Serious, reliable backup of my pictures and music - many gigabytes' worth, that's serious and important business. Not getting those pictures hacked and leaked to fappercon or whatever, that's important too (although let's face it - my physical appearance basically ensures no one is going to bother fapping to me) :)

        For now, it's all on a personal NAS, with weekly backups to USB hard disks. No cloud storage for me, and I don't trust Mega for a second. Dropbox either.

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    • (Score: 2) by isostatic on Tuesday September 09 2014, @04:47AM

      by isostatic (365) on Tuesday September 09 2014, @04:47AM (#91106) Journal

      That's great, I'm glad you're disciplined to do regular off-site backups.

      My phone went AWOL at an airport earlier this year. Got a new one a week later, withing 2 hours thousands of photos were back on it, including ones taken during that very trip.

      Music, videos, books etc, all irrelevant, but some things are irreplaceable.

      Keeping notes from meetings synced between my phone, tablet and PC is just a bonus.

  • (Score: 2) by present_arms on Monday September 08 2014, @09:44PM

    by present_arms (4392) on Monday September 08 2014, @09:44PM (#90994) Homepage Journal

    I't's also in the 32 and 64 Bit Pclinuxos repositories, not used it yet though.

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