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FTP has been obsolete since 1999 thanks to ssh/sftp. It should have died along with RSH, but people insisted on keeping it alive.

• deleted 9y ago
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• therein 9y ago
  How about the disaster that is FTPS, or even more confusing FTPES. What were they thinking.
• majewsky 9y ago
  SSH/SFTP is mostly for authenticated access. The submission is explicitly talking about "public FTP servers" (i.e. anonymous access).