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User Forks FileZilla FTP Client After Getting Hacked (filezillasecure.com)
Slashdot reader Entropy98 writes: A frustrated FileZilla user took matters into his own hands after getting hacked due to the fact that his saved passwords were being saved in plain text files. Despite years of numerous requests over almost 10 years the FileZilla devs refused to add a Master Password option to encrypt the stored passwords. Finally fed up one user forked FileZilla and created FileZilla Secure with the Master Password option.
Apparently, there's a bug in Microsoft's IIS server that causes corruption when attempting to resume large downloads. FileZilla does not take this into account, and as a result, the download is corrupted. Clearly, this is Microsoft's fault, but the situation is that there are many buggy IIS servers out there, and Filezilla, by not having a workaround for this (other FTP clients do have a workaround), ends up corrupting the download. After looking at this ticket, it shows that the developer clearly does not live in the real world.
Personally, this issue hasn't affected me, but the exchange I linked to tells me a lot about the attitude of the developer. I only even discovered this issue when reading about FileZilla.
So is this fork going to address this issue?