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FTP - Untrustworthy? I Don't Think So!

Lately, as if writers all draw from the same shrinking paddling-pool of ideas, I've noticed a batch of stories about how unsafe, unsecure and untrustworthy is FTP. SC Magazine says so. First it was an article in the print version of SC Magazine ,...

Vista's Secret Windows Firewall hole

First, the good news - it's not a flaw in the operation of Windows Firewall on Windows Vista. It's a design feature, it makes sense, and it fits in with the principle that the firewall should keep out unsolicited traffic. It's not really a...

"FTPS" document finally makes it to RFC status.

News I've been waiting for for years - the document formally known as draft-murray-auth-ftp-ssl-16.txt has finally been released by the RFC editor as RFC 4217 - “ Securing FTP with TLS ” What exactly does this mean? Technically, not very much - FTPS has...
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