FTP Notes

In my research on FTP i found that it is the simplest way to exchange files between computers. It works with the internet's TCP/IP protocols. FTP is commonly used to transfer the files from the Web page files from their creator to the computer used to service the page and then to everyone on the Net. Another use is to download programs and other files to your computer from other servers. originally FTP was an insecure method of transferring because there was no method given to transfer data in an encrypted fashion. this allows anyone access to passwords, usernames & network configurations when they use a packet sniffer. the best way to avoid this is to use FTPS or SFTP these allow for data encryption.