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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 20 2019, @07:14PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 20 2019, @07:14PM (#882729)

    Much of the online banking software is driven by cargo-cult programming. If a consortium decides that only requiring chrome or firefox less than two weeks old is "best practice", chances are that pretty soon even your nice bank will have to go along with a shitty online banking service.