[ale] Still using plain FTP? Why?

[Michael Trausch]

I would recommend looking at netcat. It doesn't send the NVT and Telnet negotiation sequences. It is a clean pipe and as close as you get to a raw socket without using a programming language. 

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> On Jan 19, 2015, at 11:08 AM, Byron Jeff <byronjeff at mail.clayton.edu> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 10:00:13AM -0500, Jim Lynch wrote:
>>> On 01/19/2015 09:22 AM, JD wrote:
>>> For folks using plain FTP still, I'd like to know why?
>>> 
>>> We all know it isn't secure and should have been removed from offers in the
>>> 1990s (along with telnet).
>>> 
>>> So, if you are still using plain FTP, why?
>>> 
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>> Can you believe that there are still web hosting companies that only
>> support ftp access?
> 
> And they have customers?!?!
> 
>> 
>> Telnet is a useful debugging tool.  I won't use it for remote shell
>> access, but for a quick test to see if a port is working on a remote
>> system, I will.
> 
> Ditto. It's usually why I install telnet on a machine.
> 
> BAJ
> 
>> 
>> Jim.
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