Is there a faster/better way to ftp?

[Alex Dean]

On Jan 6, 2010, at 12:55 PM, Dale Farnsworth wrote:

>> Man, people still using FTP?
>> Are you aware of the FTP vulnerabilities?
>
> Do you use email?  Are you aware of email vulnerabilities?
>
> Do you use the web?  Are you aware of the vulnerabilities?
>
> FTP is no more vulnerable than other protocols.

The suggestion to use SFTP rather that FTP seems like very good advice  
to me.  Email (at least IMAP, POP, etc) and web protocols can be  
wrapped up in SSL, and SFTP is a similar idea.  Any application which  
sends a password in cleartext is a problem.

You might say 'FTP is no more vulnerable than telnet'. :)

alex
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