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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, Informative) by Pino P on Monday August 19 2019, @03:41PM

    by Pino P (4721) on Monday August 19 2019, @03:41PM (#882171) Journal

    Source Forge in their infinite wisdumb packaged the FTP client for Windows with an installer that "bundled" all kinds of sharknado goodfulness.

    Not sure if there's snark here or not... Never heard of Filezilla

    When SourceForge was owned by Dice Holdings, it distributed FileZilla and a bunch of other FTP clients with "DevShare" adware attached to them. This practice lasted from mid-2013 to early 2016 and ended when BIZX took over SourceForge and Slashdot.

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