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Google Plans To Deprecate FTP URL Support In Chrome

posted by janrinok on Monday August 19 2019, @01:55PM   Printer-friendly
from the left-to-rot dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Currently people can access FTP list and download resources hosted on FTP servers in Chrome through FTP URLs, but this may not work anymore in the near future. In a post published by Chrome engineers, there is a plan to deprecate FTP support in Chrome version 82.

The major motivation for this deprecation is that Chrome doesn't have an encrypted FTP connection support(FTPs), this raises security risk of downloading resources over FTP. Since users can access FTP URLs and download resources, there is no encryption of the data which indicates any sensitive information would be exposed to middle man attack. There are other vulnerabilities as well. 

[...] The deprecation will start from Chrome version 82 planned to be released in 2020 Q2.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Freeman on Monday August 19 2019, @02:41PM (2 children)

    by Freeman (732) on Monday August 19 2019, @02:41PM (#882143) Journal

    Yeah, no. You're only going to get what a few major corporations want out of it. I guarantee you, it's not going to be "more privacy" or "more anonymity", but much more along the lines of more money for $BigCorp.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 19 2019, @03:55PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 19 2019, @03:55PM (#882179)

    It could be better built than it is, and this would undeniably aid big corps more than normal people, but this does not mean it wouldn't be better for normal people than it currently is which is what you seem to believe.

    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 19 2019, @04:16PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 19 2019, @04:16PM (#882190)

      It's better to be screwed by google, than to be screwed by google AND whomever finds an exploit in the byzantine glass tower of shit the web forces them to build to screw you in the first place.