Re: ramen worm

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Stuart" == Stuart Luppescu <s-luppescu@example.com> writes:

    Stuart> Well, ftp is very useful in some cases, especially for
    Stuart> anonymous access to files.

HTTP is generally faster, more robust (to stupid clients that wake up
in ASCII mode for example), and doesn't require special treatment for
firewalls.

    Stuart> The vulnerability in ftp was fixed a long time ago,

You're missing Joerg's point.  The vulnerability in FTP will _never_
be fixed, because FTP is a complex server application.  HTTP has
exactly the same vulnerability, of course---so why run two such
servers?

And neither should be enabled by default.  Not even if you install the
package.

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