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Re: Security problems with applesharing?

On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Doug Simpson wrote:

> And speaking to the issue of filesharing: WS-FTP (Windows) and Fetch
> (Macs), two ftp clients still in use on _our_ campus, like many popular
> file-transfer programs still transmit passwords in the clear. Free secure
> solutions exist for Windows machines, but none (yet) for the Mac classic
> OS.
>
> -Doug Simpson University of Oregon Computing Center
> (authentic, professional .sig on back-order at Physical Plant)

What about version 4 of Fetch? It doesn't appear to use clear-text
passwords unless required by the machine you're connecting to, and it's
free for educational users.

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