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Who still uses FTP, for anything?Who still uses FTP, for anything?Posted Jul 5, 2011 9:01 UTC (Tue) by Cato (subscriber, #7643)In reply to: Who still uses FTP, for anything? by dion Parent article: Vsftpd backdoor discovered in source code (The H)
You can easily run FTP over SSL, so it's no worse than HTTPS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTPS
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Who still uses FTP, for anything? Posted Jul 5, 2011 9:30 UTC (Tue) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]
FTP(S) is worse than HTTP(S) with regard to NAT gateways (which, I agree, should not exist in the first place ;-).
Who still uses FTP, for anything? Posted Jul 5, 2011 12:41 UTC (Tue) by silmaril (subscriber, #52105) [Link]
Well NAT is bad anyway, but FTP/FTPS doesn't help statefull firewalling neither...
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