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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: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday August 19 2019, @04:24PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday August 19 2019, @04:24PM (#882195) Journal

    Sadly, if I were to mention FTP to our "IT" guy, he would be likely to get a blank look on his face. I'm pretty sure that he doesn't know what any of those clients are for. Word comes down from corporate that "We are installing blah-blah security suite, which will be pushed to all company computers next week. Please let us know of any problems." Then, 4 months later, blah-blah security suite disappears because the un-install has been quietly pushed, without any announcements. It was obvious from day one that blah-blah security suite brought the best machines to a slow walk, and older machines to their knees. And, the IT guy? He only knew that he couldn't load his internet games, and vidyas. Didn't have a clue what was happening.

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