[DanBC]

We've seen court orders that caused Hushmail to create malformed Java apps which were then silenty delivered to target machines in order to break encryption.

http://www.wired.com/2007/11/hushmail-to-war/

People pretty much have no option but to comply with court orders. Most people are not going to go to jail so that other people can continue distributing stuff.

This should be a worry with Mega and its current owners.

[amatix]

They were talking about making offline & alternative OSS clients (via an open API) so that if they were legally forced to change the Javascript (which currently does the encryption) that it wouldn't affect the integrity of the service for those users.