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Authored by: sitharus on Oct 26, '02 11:55:09PM

FTP is by its nature insecure, as the passwords are sent in plain text. Of course, if the finder saves the URL in the box then you have a problem, but iirc if you just put a username it asks for a password.

If you want to be secure you have to use secure copy (scp)



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