Because not everyone knows how to use things like ettercap 
which can intercept versions of ssh and https connections and
who knows what else. However, it would be easy for someone 
to look over my shoulder. Also, sftp has larger overhead 
and encryption is not always necessary.

On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 19:00, will hill wrote:
> Use sftp?  ftp sends passwords in plain text, why bother to hide it? 
When I 
> set up ftp, I use anonymous access.  
> 
> On Friday 26 March 2004 18:46, Alvaro Zuniga wrote:
> > .... 
> > Nautilus keeps the password on the main window when browsing ftp,
any
> > way around that?
> >
> 
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