As far as the password storage goes, you are not up-to-date. They are stored base64-encoded now. Yes, much better.
That's nowhere near sufficient for 2015. rot13 at the very least.
Trojan found in Filezilla downloaded from SourceForge
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Re: Trojan found in Filezilla downloaded from SourceForge
#42There is a safer way install FileZilla through ninite installer or chocolately
Chocolatey nuget is similar to Linux package managers but for Windows programs
https://chocolatey.org choco install filezilla
Re: Trojan found in Filezilla downloaded from SourceForge
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
On Windows, you don't always need a 3rd party FTP program. Windows Explorer (not IE) already does FTP. Just open any folder and type ftp://example.com into the path bar.
Or you type 'ftp' in the command line.
It doesn't come standard, not on all Windows flavours. It's a part of "Core networking utilities" package that used to have some really odd dependencies.
Re: Trojan found in Filezilla downloaded from SourceForge
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Isn't this what Google Groups is used for? (what's different / lacking there? I'm of the age where I remember SourceForge as somewhere I would sometimes download things from as a young teenager but nothing more than that)
Yes, Google Groups is very close to what's needed - unfortunately, it's proprietary and Google doesn't really maintain it, it's only a matter of time it goes the way of Reader.
IMHO, the UX of Groups is really annoying. I'm not really sure why, it just feels so cumbersome.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
How would you replace them? ( Please don't say Slack. That is just _not_ a good replacement, especially for projects that needs publicly searchable archives. ) IMHO a publicly/semi-publicly logged irc channel would do just as well, but that's even more oldschool.
The alternative is pretty much only online forums. Which imo. doesn't offer a lot of advantages, and most forum software is exceptionally bad (though yes, a few new and nicer ones are coming along)
Discourse
NodeBB
and Vanilla comes to mind
Re: Trojan found in Filezilla downloaded from SourceForge
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why mailing lists are still quite massively popular in 2015?..
How would you replace them? ( Please don't say Slack. That is just _not_ a good replacement, especially for projects that needs publicly searchable archives. ) IMHO a publicly/semi-publicly logged irc channel would do just as well, but that's even more oldschool.
I have never used mailing list so I'm probably naive, but what about github issues?
Re: Trojan found in Filezilla downloaded from SourceForge
#47SourceForge and Filezilla are both on their way out, hence their owners desire to monetize their remaining users while they still can. WinSCP is a decent alternative. As is Swish: http://www.swish-sftp.org/ https://github.com/alamaison/swish
On Windows, you don't always need a 3rd party FTP program. Windows Explorer (not IE) already does FTP. Just open any folder and type ftp://example.com into the path bar.
That is not a reliable work tool
It does not support passive mode No queue No SFTP No FXP
Re: Trojan found in Filezilla downloaded from SourceForge
#48Clicking on the download link ws blocked by ublock origin. Weird.
Re: Trojan found in Filezilla downloaded from SourceForge
#49About two hours ago I pondered installing the Diffuse merge tool[0] on a Windows box. Then I noticed that it was hosted on Sourceforge and thought "nah, not really worth the risk". Now that I see this post I feel even more content that I avoided Sourceforge.
[0] hxxp://diffuse.sourceforge.net/
Re: Trojan found in Filezilla downloaded from SourceForge
#50Clicking on the download link ws blocked by ublock origin. Weird.
uBlock Origin indeed blocks the sourceforge URLs. Not a bad idea, I would say. Makes you think twice.