And my original point was that FTP is inherently insecure. It's transmitting username and password in the clear, for starters. (To be clear, I'm talking about

And my original point was that FTP is inherently insecure. It's transmitting username and password in the clear, for starters. (To be clear, I'm talking about plain vanilla RFC-959 FTP. Yes, you can add additional security layers on top. Sadly, at least the places I've seen still use FTP are the places that still use it in vanilla config. I have no idea what your experiences are - this is a comment on the general state of FTP users.)