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by stephenr 4289 days ago
In 2014 ftp access is not a feature, it is an alarm bell to anyone that has any concern at all for security.
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I _hope_ that when they write 'FTP' they actually mean '(FTP or) SFTP'. Alas, that's no always true.
That's FTPS, not SFTP, to be precise.

The former is classic FTP sessions secured with TLS on all or some (negotiated at runtime) connections. The latter is a (saner, IMHO) separate protocol traditionally run over SSH session.