FTP Is 40 Years Old · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by timothy on Friday April 15, 2011 @12:25PM from the why-when-it-was-a-boy dept.

An anonymous reader writes "FTP celebrates its 40th birthday tomorrow. Originally launched as the RFC 114 specification, which was published on 16 April 1971, FTP is arguably even more important today than when it was born. Frank Kenney, vice president of global strategy for US managed file transfer company Ipswitch, said that the protocol we know as FTP today is 'a far cry from when Abhay Bushan, a student at MIT, wrote the original specifications for FTP.' According to Kenney, the standard has grown from 'a simple protocol to copy files over a TCP-based network [to] a sophisticated, integrated model that provides control, visibility, compliance and security in a variety of environments, including the cloud.'"

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Re:Oh please by qubezz · 2011-04-16 02:02 · Score: 1, Troll

Leaving your front door wide open when your house is full of a lot of valuable shit is not the answer.
That anology doesn't quite work though. Modern OS's and applications don't leave the door open.
Really? That's like saying my 12 year old won't get raped because she has a hymen.