FTP

FTP is very confusing to understand from my limited knowledge care of wikipedia. However from what i can desifer from this webpage is that FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is used to transfer data from one computer to another through a network ie the internet. Some of the negatives to using FTP include 

1. Passwords are not readily protected
2. Because mutliple connections are used additional firewall protection is needed
3. users are able to abuse the protocol and send data the a third computer. 
4. There is a time delay in transferring files 
5. If a file is interupted there is no way to know if the receiver has the whole file. 
6. There is no way for the FTP to set a time date stamp to tell people time last modified etc. 

One major risk in using FTP is that there is no particularily safe way of transfering files because the data is not transfered in an encrypted fashion which means anyone on the same network can view your username, password, and FTP commands. 

However i'm not going to be a negitive nancy so lets look for positive pete for some advantages of using FTP. 

1. FtP servers can be set up anywhere 
2. You are able to manipulae files no matter what  operating system you are using 

All of this information was found using Wikipedia

I think in the future FTP will solve all its problems and be an extremely useful piece of technology 

I hope this was insightful for you as it was for me love Brie xoxoxoxoxoxoxxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo