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Re:Amazon Web Services in Plain English by WhyNotHugo on Saturday November 17, 2018 @10:38PM (#18478753)
Whenever I read FTP, I assume very legacy, very insecure protocols.

Mostly because FTP has been considered insecure and kinda deprecated since 1999, and we've had better things (eg: SFTP) since.

So, for somebody in their fourties it might be a better name, but for somebody younger, it's definitely misleading.

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Re:Amazon Web Services in Plain English by sam0x17 on Sunday November 18, 2018 @12:57AM (#18479063)
yeah but starting around 2005 if you said "ftp server" it was implied that you would still use encryption via sftp or ftps. Few people will actually spell out sftp server.
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Re:Amazon Web Services in Plain English by eksemplar on Sunday November 18, 2018 @02:38AM (#18479297)
Sftp servers are still the backbone in a lot of datatransfers.

Apparently APIs are really hard for most companies.

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