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I wish software would stop supporting FTP. It's a clear text protocol. Everything is sent in the clear text. Anyone on the wifi hotspot, any one listening at yo
by swartkrans 12y ago
I wish software would stop supporting FTP. It's a clear text protocol. Everything is sent in the clear text. Anyone on the wifi hotspot, any one listening at your ISP, all the way to your host knows exactly what you're uploading or downloading.
Someone asked for FTP support for our product and I said no way. We'd support SFTP, but not FTP, and neither really should anyone else. People don't want FTP, they want to transfer their files, but they're lazy and don't understand the security implications and they're going to keep using FTP until software changes.
- r00fus 12y agoYou know that some banks and financial institutions still use FTP - they simply PGP/GPG encrypt the files.
- ChrisLTD 12y agoI agree that no one should be using FTP anymore. However, this is a problem for server admins to solve, not Panic.
- arb99 12y agoAlmost all FTP programs have sFTP support built in (and I can't see FTP programs starting to call themselves SFTP programs). I know transmit for mac does support sftp (and a few other things like amazon s3, webdav), so despite this being an FTP program I would expect the iOS version to support sftp.
- Spiritus 12y agoHow about FTPS[1]? [1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTPS http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTPS