Free, Secure, and Open-Source: How FileZilla is Making an Old School Protocol Cool Again

It's a free and open-source, cross-platform FTP application that allows secure file transfering — and it's making an old-school protocol cool again, according to a recent blog post.

According to the post, FileZilla is committed to their role in freeing technology by making it accessible, open and also secure. It explains how FileZilla has beefed up that security through a collaboration with the Open Technology Fund. Let's Encrypt is an open source certificate authority that ensures secure communication between the two end-points sending or receiving a file via FileZilla. The Red Team Lab offers a penetration test. The researchers wanted to see if they could gain control of the server. The testing for these researchers was extensive. The security vulnerabilities that the team found were fixed by FileZilla. Anyone who wants to use the FileZilla software can be confident that it has been cross-scrutinised by a third party and found to be secure. They don't sell your data to other companies and don't track your behavior. They have advertisements on their website but they are not posted in a newspaper. You don't know that you are reading the advertisements or that you call or connect to the website. There was no underlying tracking on the advertisement that was attached to the website. "Our mission hasn't changed in over two decades: design, develop, maintain and enhance free tools to securely transfer files with ease and reliability," said Tim Kosse. The freedom of their tools and of their users was always preserved by this decision. "We aren't the typical commercial open-source venture that starts doing things for free, and over time, closes this and that to make money" said the Director of Strategy. The freedom of our tools will never be questioned even if FileZilla is not listed at the New York Stock Exchange. If you work in an industry that requires the secure transfer of sensitive files, or if you simply have personal photographs or videos, using proprietary platforms to share or store them can put your information at risk of being exposed. There is an alternative that is private. Their tools are developed by a team that is deeply invested in protecting users' confidentiality and that is central to their work and decision making. There is a global community of technologists, activists, coders, bloggers, journalists, software developers, and conscious internet users who make internet freedom a daily practice. Supporting, experimenting with and using free and open source tools, such as the FileZilla client and server, allows us to dis invest from the capitalist pursuit of corporate control of technology. We can align with an alternative narrative that is grounded in principles of cooperation, solidarity, commons and openness.