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[George Cohn]

Stephen Hooper wrote:
> On 4/23/07, Matt  Jacob <matt.jacob at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>>Thoughts?
>>
>>FTP is inherently insecure and SFTP or SCP should be used instead. :-P
>>
> 
> 
> Dude.  I know it sounds cool to say "inherently insecure", but that is
> bullshit: nothing is inherently insecure about FTP.

I think that idea is because the default action of ftp is to send the 
password in clear text, hence the possibility of a "man in the middle" 
sniffer.

I'm not paranoid but I use SSH and VSFTP just to alleviate those fears.

George Cohn