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I dunno man, the amount of people who say "FTP server" with a straight face, not realizing that credentials are transmitted in plaintext, is alarming.
by _asummers 11y ago
I dunno man, the amount of people who say "FTP server" with a straight face, not realizing that credentials are transmitted in plaintext, is alarming.
- sdenton4 11y agoYeah, I generally give people the benefit of the doubt on that one, given that the new way is sftp... FTP is still a reasonable shorthand.
- badloginagain 11y agoIt doesn't help that you have either FTPS or SFTP depending on the platform. I call it FTP as a generalization, but if I ever saw it as an actual FTP implementation I'm outta there.
- kefka 11y agoAn FTP server is perfectly fine for anonymous logins, assuming it was configured server side to be running as a low permissioned user. But yes, once you start taking user credentials, you need to move to something like FTPS or SFTP (urgh... double standards).
- jenscow 11y agoBut authentication goes both ways.
- unclebucknasty 11y agoYeah, but e-mail. The overwhelming masses of people still use it for transmitting the most important docs in plaintext.
- jameshart 11y agoAnd people still call TLS SSL. Habits form, technologies change.