Verizon Kills Free FTP Access 130
First time accepted submitter JP205 writes "Verizon recently disabled FTP access for its Internet customers who use its proprietary service to build their personal websites. It turns out that if you want FTP access restored, Verizon is happy to grant it to you for an extra $6 a month."
Misleading summary is incomplete. (Score:5, Insightful)
Verizon didn't "kill FTP access". They didn't shut down the protocol. They only shut off FTP access to their free personal web page hosting servers. That's a big difference when you're writing a headline.
It's days like this that I miss the fine editing that CmdrTaco used to provide.
Re:FTP (Score:2, Insightful)
reliable, simple, unambiguous, easy to automate, low overhead method for moving any sort of files.
Re:FTP (Score:4, Insightful)
Reliable? Unless you need to go through a NAT
Simple? Nothing's as simple as connecting to one port for the control channel and then having another random port you need to connect to for a data channel and then there's the PASV/EPASV vs. Active question.
Unambiguous? Every server displays different text, I'm not even sure the prompts are the same
Easy to automate? It's a challenge-response password mechanism
Low overhead? See the "simple" rebuttal
And, oh yes, all passwords are strictly in the clear.
SCP, on the other hand, is reliable, simple, unambiguous, much easier to automate, and overhead isn't nearly the problem on modern computers as it was when you tried to get it working on a 386SX. And one more thing, it's SECURE!
Re:FTP (Score:2, Insightful)