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Dweditlast Friday at 2:35 PM2 repliesview on HN

FTP is great for the hackers who want to sniff cleartext user passwords over insecure public wifi.


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economistboblast Friday at 3:15 PM

FTPs used to have anonymous logins unless one was on a LAN, so sniffing passwords was not very relevant.

mason_mplslast Saturday at 1:44 AM

SFTP