Have you tested this on High Sierra? If it is a "more secure" operating system like the link mentions, I was under the impression programs like these would be blocked on the system level.
I appreciate you're being catty, but the idea is to not have it installed by default where persons who aren't aware of it (majority of Mac users) may be affected by whatever concern they have. Users who want or need FTP are likely capable of finding any number of ways of bring it back to their system.
My question wasn't entirely snark. I was genuinely curious if Apple has made it harder to install insecure programs like that. Otherwise, the move just doesn't seem very effective to me.
Its the system's job to be secure by default, its not its job to break aribtrary user installed applications the system decides might be insecure. How would it decide that anyway?
Anything that uses clear-text passwords has been removed. That is a very clear red-line. Also, anything that uses weak encryption, like P2PTP has also been removed, but a few versions ago. And the ssh defaults are tightened up almost every point release. As soon as a cipher becomes known as "weak", Apple pulls it.
And yet we still get a 11 year old version of Bash. :-)
Of course, but th We are all system components. The comment was referring to user installed applications and preventing no that if they are insecure. How is the system supposed to know that a user installed application uses clear text passwords?