Google Blogspot dropping FTP support in March
They say it is because not many users use it, which looks correct. But given the timing of it (Jan. 22) coming right after Google announced they and many other Silicon Valley high tech companies had been attacked by industrial espionage agents, I think there may be more to it.
FTP is a notoriously unsafe protocol. It sends a login password as clear text. That means anyone monitoring the network it passes through can steal the password and use it. Not legally, of course. They would most likely be breaking quite a few laws just by obtaining the password that way. But there are a lot of people around the world that do break computers laws for a living.
This reminds me of the fact that about the same week, Google announced they were switching Gmail from HTTP to the more secure HTTPS protocol. This whole thing just seems like a manifestation of the burden hackers are putting on society's use of computer and networking technology.
FTP is a notoriously unsafe protocol. It sends a login password as clear text. That means anyone monitoring the network it passes through can steal the password and use it. Not legally, of course. They would most likely be breaking quite a few laws just by obtaining the password that way. But there are a lot of people around the world that do break computers laws for a living.
This reminds me of the fact that about the same week, Google announced they were switching Gmail from HTTP to the more secure HTTPS protocol. This whole thing just seems like a manifestation of the burden hackers are putting on society's use of computer and networking technology.
Labels: blogging, computing, google, networking, security, snafus
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