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My original point was merely that FTP is far from dead for general purpose file transfer. It can still be quite safe if precautions are taken with encrypting the data first. Anyone looking at it will see nothing but gobbledegook, naturally.

It isn't dead and yes, of course, I know the difference between FTP and SFTP.

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And my original point was that FTP is inherently insecure. It's transmitting username and password in the clear, for starters.

(To be clear, I'm talking about plain vanilla RFC-959 FTP. Yes, you can add additional security layers on top. Sadly, at least the places I've seen still use FTP are the places that still use it in vanilla config. I have no idea what your experiences are - this is a comment on the general state of FTP users.)

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