[gopher] Should we be mirroring Gopher sites via FTP?
Cameron Kaiser
spectre at floodgap.com
Fri Sep 15 13:48:04 UTC 2017
> Reading today, about the news that Chrome will now be flagging FTP sites
> as insecure[1] which is obviously the first step to depreciating
> support, and seeing that debian and kernel.org no longer support their
> FTP archives[2], should those of us hosting (or in my case planning to
> host) large respositories of older files and data via Gopher, also be
> thinking about hosting it via anonymous FTP ?
Couldn't hurt, though FTP servers are a wider attack surface than Gopher
servers.
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