(07-22-2020, 11:50 PM)classicdrogn Wrote: What's wrong with FTP archives? They were very straightforward and convenient compared to poking through endless web pages with fifteen (or ten or as few as five items per page when they're really pushing the ad views) as long as you already knew what you were after, the same as working with files on a local disk. To be honest I miss them.
Most of the current issues with FTP as a protocol are related to internet security, more specifically that as one of the oldest protocols (it actually predates TCP/IP), FTP was actually not built to be secure (no encryption at all anywhere, including the username and password, so Man In The Middle is a major concern). That said, good FTP software supports more secure protocols like SFTP (which drives FTP over SSH) anyway.
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