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Best practices for operators of large FTP archives

The Evolution of the Digital Library: From Starplex to Global Archives

The era of massive FTP servers eventually faded. This was due to several factors:

. The U.S. Department of Justice, in coordination with international law enforcement, launched Operation Buccaneer

: Standard FTP (Port 21) is considered insecure because it transmits credentials in plain text. Modern reviews strongly recommend using SFTP (Port 22), which encrypts both data and commands.