It's amusing how quickly people forget how bad FTP was -- complex connection setup made it difficult to proxy, lack of encryption made it easy to sniff, managin

It's amusing how quickly people forget how bad FTP was -- complex connection setup made it difficult to proxy, lack of encryption made it easy to sniff, managing FTP accounts was really hard without sophisticated auditing and management tools. SSH/SFTP helped a lot on the security front, but even for small companies, it's way easier to use cloud buckets than FTP.