On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Rick Moen wrote:
> Two words: plaintext passwords.
Surely this holds true for all implementations of FTP, and Telnet for that
matter. Personal recommendation, OpenSSH with SCP and use SCP/SSH clients.
Putty and WinSCP work on windows and Nifty Telnet + SSH works on Mac.
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