Today, Kenneth E. Lussier gleaned this insight:
> I am certainly not going to try and claim that FTP is secure. I'm not
> going to claim to like it. What I am saying is that FTP has it's place.
I don't really disagree with that, but I don't really agree either.
EVERYTHING that ftp provides can be provided another way which is probably
a LOT more secure. For anonymous file transfers, you can use HTTP.
Apache might not be completely without security problems in it's history,
but it's been pretty damn good.
For non-anonymous, and especially for sensitive data, I wouldn't even
consider using anything which wasn't encrypted. That pretty much leaves
you with authenticated HTTPS or SSH, or possibly something home-grown, or
perhaps commercial software...
If you can name one thing that FTP gets you that can't be accomplished
another way, just as conveniently, I'll buy into the line that FTP has
it's place. But I can't think of any. While I don't necessarily agree
with all of Tod's reasoning, I do agree that FTP has outlived its
usefulness. It isn't that it doesn't have any use, but that it can easily
be replaced by other things with better track records, and which in every
case I can think of are also a lot more flexible.
--
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Somebody set us up the bomb!
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Derek Martin
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