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Easily. While running an ftpd, make sure you have set passwords that are strong, limit accounts (none except yours?), have a secure connection to your ftpd that masks your IP and/or moniter ANY traffic towards the server.
Having a strong password doesn't limit people that sniff the password and login using it... it's an insecure protocol... You aren't make the protocol more secure... you're making it's usage more secure
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If you need further explanation, let me know.. I don't understand the difficult concept. Sure, in the case of Telnet, it's BETTER (safer, etc) to use SSH. In the case of FTP however, why not keep it simple for a home user who is merely trying to transfer files.
I'm not sure how you can say this and not understand it... You agree with the use of SSH but not the use of SFTP? They use the same daemon... It shouldn't be about keeping it simple... that's how Microsoft became so big and how there were so many flaws in their operating system.. Things that should have been closed by default but were left open to make usage easier to the user... some of the features of IE and Outlook are prime examples.