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FTP is still heavily used in the energy industry too. We upload an enormous amount of minute-by-minute meter data at work via FTP to various energy providers.
by dmux 5y ago
FTP is still heavily used in the energy industry too. We upload an enormous amount of minute-by-minute meter data at work via FTP to various energy providers.
- Symbiote 5y agoYou should probably report this as a data breach, since meter data sounds like personal data, and FTP isn't encrypted. And you aren't using Firefox anyway, it has never supported FTP uploads.
- dmux 5y agoI'm not sure if you're trying to be antagonistic with this reply or not. I also didn't feel it was important for me to outline the entirety of the data pipeline -- I merely wanted to point out that FTP is still in heavy use in some industries. To address your concerns though: meter data is not ingested via FTP. That's done using other protocols. It's transferred b2b via FTP over private tunnels. And you're correct Firefox is not used for uploading data. If it were possible it wouldn't even be a good choice given the volume of data we deal with. It is, however, used heavily for accessing the uploaded data by Operations and other teams.