[ale] [EXTERNAL] Rant: internet for the stupid

[Chris Fowler]

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Subject: Re: [ale] [EXTERNAL] Rant: internet for the stupid

I'm anti-plain FTP.  Think it should have been killed off in 2002.
Very unfriendly towards firewalls. Next to zero security. Worse if people are using non-anonymous logins.

I agree 100%.  Almost no security and I am not crazy of its use of two ports.   I guess a relic of the time it was invented.

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