11.Locks IsometricPattern

Have you heard that Firefox is planning to drop support for the vulnerable file transfer protocol in version 77 of the web browser? 

Heads up, Firefox users who rely on FTP: the browser is eliminating support for this venerable protocol.

First written in 1971, the file transfer protocol predates TCP/IP, the protocol stack that underpins the modern internet. In its original form, the protocol is insecure. For example, it transmits login credentials in plain text. In 1999, the IETF published adraft RFClisting its various shortcomings. These included everything from problems in the way it responded to invalid login attempts through to an inability to segment file permissions when using anonymous FTP (which doesn’t require user credentials at all).

Now, Mozilla is planning to turn off FTP by default in version 77 of Firefox, which willship this June. Users will be able to turn it on again temporarily so that they can carry on using FTP from within the browser. Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) will continue to have FTP turned on by defaultin ESR version 78.

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