BEST case: They search his personal computer and find movies or music, drop the main charge and fine him $175 million and give him 5 years for possessing illegal downloads. Point made to all the other file hosters and anyone else they target. Kim Dotcom has been a lifelong hacker for god’s sake. Probably has a massive collection. What do you rhink really took two years of investigation, MegaUpload or finding out what he personally had and where it came from? You could figure out megaupload itself in 5 minutes.
And I’ve been close to this stuff since 1981.
>>BEST case: They search his personal computer and find movies or music, drop the main charge and fine him $175 million and give him 5 years for possessing illegal downloads. Point made to all the other file hosters and anyone else they target. Kim Dotcom has been a lifelong hacker for god’s sake. Probably has a massive collection. What do you rhink really took two years of investigation, MegaUpload or finding out what he personally had and where it came from? You could figure out megaupload itself in 5 minutes.
Doubt it. When they hit the 256-bit encrypted key and SSL on his admin login and hd, they’ll ask him to hand over the passcode. Because of the stress the authorities exerted on him, he has forgotten. 3 passkey tries, HD gets zeroed and oned 32 times. Hell, if you don’t have at least a 128 on your hard drive, a WPA2/EAP with CCMP, you’re asking for it.
I think he’s gonna be fine. Hackers know exactly what they’re doing, and probably know 10X the techniques that I’ve posted. Kim will walk into court with a smile on his face and the feds will jump on him about all the times that other people u/led copyrighted material - and Kim will say “Yeah, and when I received a notice from someone, I DELETED IT.” Go back to your mansion with all that money, Kim.