On Thursday 30 August 2001 15:23, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> On Don, 30 Aug 2001, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > > Hm, can you think of safe protocols other than http and https?
> >
> > ftp, news.
>
> news is not safe. your newsserver might be private or password protected,
> and if somebody from outside can fetch data from it -> security leak.

Same for ftp, I would guess. Imagine someone copying /etc/whatever to 
ftp://localhost/pub ...


Bye,
Matthias.