Re: Filezilla's silent caching of user's credentials

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>]

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Ryan Sears <rdsears () mtu edu> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> As some of you may or may not be aware, the popular (and
> IMHO one of the best) FTP/SCP program Filezilla caches your
> credentials for every host you connect to, without either warning
> or ability to change this without editing an XML file. There have
> been quite a few bug and features requests filed, and they all
> get closed or rejected within a week or so. I also posted
> something in the developer forum inquiring about this, and
> received this response:
>
> "I do not see any harm in storing credentials as long as the
> rest of your system is properly secure as it should be."
> Source:(http://forum.filezilla-project.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=17932)
>
> [SNIP]
>
> I just wanted to gauge the FD community on this issue,
> because with enough backing and explanation from the
> security community as to why this is a problem, this issue
> may finally be resolved (it's been doing this for years now).

Am I the only person who finds it ironic that the same measures
leveraged against closed source projects have to be employed against
some open source projects?

Jeff

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