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Re:FTC sues D-Link over router and camera security flaws by minxomat on Saturday January 07, 2017 @07:20AM (#13343778)
> and the "fix it to get off the list" statement, too

Is addressed as "(This doesn't concern FTP servers that are public by design.)"

> seen unknowing managers go

These are not the people managing the FOSS mirrors that are public by design.

In fact, that's one of the reasons openftp4 now stores the complete banner. It makes it easy to identify FOSS mirrors by just grepping for "mirror" et al. and maybe even find new mirrors that you didn't know about. Or older software archives with some awesome abandonware.

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Re:FTC sues D-Link over router and camera security flaws by kuschku on Saturday January 07, 2017 @07:35AM (#13343838)
Well, I’m not just talking about FOSS mirrors (they wouldn’t require a browser to download stuff in the first place).

I’m concerned about companies that used to host drivers, software, etc on FTP, publicly available, but moved it now behind a clickthrough-wall, impossible to wget.

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