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• n  protocol that allows users to copy files between their local system and any system they can reach on the network
• v  use the file transfer protocol to transfer data from one computer to another

• Many attempts at many different ftp sites failed.
• You could use e-mail, you could store files on ftp servers, and people could access them, but it was very complicated.
• I needed to use an FTP program made specifically for downloading files from (and uploading to) ftp sites.

• file transfer protocol
• FTP

News & Articles

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• Google Uses Secure FTP and In-Person Delivery for NSA
  Google disclosed Wednesday that it uses secure FTP servers and occasional in-person delivery when it complies with National Security Agency requests for user information.
  June 13, 2013 - HispanicBusiness.com
• Google: Feds do not have direct access to servers
  Google disclosed Wednesday that it uses secure FTP servers and occasionally in-person delivery when it complies to National Security Agency requests for user information.
  June 13, 2013 - The Alexandria Town Talk
• How Google Gives Your Information to the NSA
  Ever since news of PRISM broke, there's been a lot of confusion and denial about exactly how the NSA is getting your information from the companies that have been collecting it. Now Google's fessed up to the details, and it's unsurprisingly simple : by FTP or even by hand. Read more...        
  June 12, 2013 - Gizmodo

Quotes

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• Ijaz Butt in AFP
  Initially, the ICC attempted to change the structure of the FTP beginning from 2012 in which international cricket would have more content and would play more as a Super League with a 4-year structure resulting in a World Cricket Championship, but... Julian Hunte http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Hunte&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNForCNgPWzFKfufsXp-3Kwo-4oV6Q Press Trust of India http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.ptinews.com/news/254800_BCCI-rejected-Test-championship--claims-WICB-chief&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHR35wd21b3xIIkeoVGa9LuEJO4Ew Aug 29, 2009 40289 51780 ftp We have received a fresh draft of the FTP which is two blocks of four years each, from 2012 to 2016 and to 2020," said PCB chairman Ijaz Butt. "In it we have Tests, one-dayers and Twenty20 matches with India."
• Saleem Altaf in Cricketnext.com
  We would now have to tour Bangladesh from mid-March, instead of March 3, if we are to host the Sri Lankans. I am hopeful the Bangladesh board will cooperate with us but it all depends on their FTP commitments,Altaf said.