http://tech.saigonist.com/taxonomy/term/103/all en http://tech.saigonist.com/b/osx/ftp-vs-sftp-vs-ftps-vs-scpssh <span class="submitted-by">March 12, 2016</span><div class="field_tags"><span class="label label-info"><a href="/tags/security">security</a></span> <span class="label label-info"><a href="/tags/ssh">ssh</a></span> <span class="label label-info"><a href="/tags/scp">scp</a></span> <span class="label label-info"><a href="/tags/ftp">ftp</a></span> <span class="label label-info"><a href="/tags/command-line">command line</a></span> </div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>FTP is the historically standard protocol for copying files from one computer to another over a network connection (TCP/IP, so any host on today's Internet, but it wasn't always the case). Many people including many developers learned how to use an FTP client on Windows in order to connect to a server and upload and download files.</p> <h1>Stop using FTP!</h1> <p>FTP is not secure for the same reason that HTTP is not secure and why there's a movement (Let's Encrypt) to move every website to use TLS, i.e. HTTPS instead of HTTP. The reason HTTP and FTP are not safe is that they are not...</p></div></div></div> Fri, 11 Mar 2016 18:37:43 +0000 tomo 63 at http://tech.saigonist.com