file transfer security WAS RE: file sharing

["James Jones" <doc-x -at- earthlink -dot- net>]

LQ: Sounds good, what you said. But there have been quite a few commercial
file transfer services that have been mentioned so far (on this thread). Is
there a simple way to tell whether a particular service is using https and
not just http? Can you tell that they are using https from your browser?
Thanks. 

Jim Jones http://tinyurl.com/4arjc

-----Original Message-----
...SSH or SFTP, always.  Always.  Yes because the files traverse an
encrypted tunnel but, more critically, so do your login credentials.

Re commercial services, same deal.  Transfers *and* logins must take
place over HTTPS at a minimum.  Must.  If not, you must assume
they've been compromised, because you can't know that they haven't
been.  Must Assume Compromise.FTP will bite you, eventually, and you won't
even know...

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