Kim Dotcom launches MegaChat to take on Skype

Kim Dotcom's Mega, Ltd has launched the beta version of its video call and chat service called MegaChat to take on Skype and boasts of being extremely secure unlike other such services.

New Zealand based cloud storage company Mega, Ltd has launched MegaChat, a video and chat service that promises end-to-end encryption.

At the end of December, Kim Dotcom, the founder of Mega, announced that his company would be launching a browser based "video call and chat service" with a major focus on privacy. Now, within just one month of the announcement, MegaChat is already in public beta.

We are releasing #MegaChat beta step by step. Starting with video calling today. Text chat & video conferencing will follow soon.
— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) January 22, 2015

Users can try out video calling using MegaChat at the moment, while text chat and video conferencing features are still being developed. The service also integrates with the Mega cloud storage system to enable encrypted file sharing.

#Mega offers a security bounty again. Please report any security flaw to us. We'll fix it and reward you. Thanks for helping.
— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) January 22, 2015

Kim Dotcom has offered a bounty to users who can break the security of MegaChat, as end-to-end encryption is the service's most important feature against Skype which has been allegedly spied upon by government agencies.

Source: Twitter via TechCrunch | Image via Vice