Following the recent corporate self-termination of the encrypted email systems, Lavabit (the same service used by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden) and Silent Circle, Kim Dotcom's privacy-crusading Mega organization is vowing to step-up with a new encrypted email and voice services.
ZDNet interviewed Mega's CEO Vikram Kumar who said that Mega was working on delivering secure email and voice services. However, rather than just offering encrypted emails, Kumar hinted that Mega would include functionality that most consumers have come to expect such as the ability to search through emails. This is "not quite impossible [for true end-to-end encryption services], but very, very hard. That's why even Silent Circle didn't go there," Kumar said.
Mega's website already had a section promising that the company will provide its signature browser-based "User Controlled Encryption" for "a wide range of applications" including emails, calls, chats, and video streams.
A history of troublemaking
Mega (short for Mega Encrypted Global Access) made its name providing "an awesome cloud-storage service that will help protect your privacy." The organization promises secure and private cloud storage using browser-based encryption, though the service has faced some skepticism from security experts, much of which has since been acknowledged in the site's FAQ section.
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