This decision was a political one taken by FileZilla, to always preserve the freedom of their tools, and of their users. 'Our mission hasn't changed in over 20 years: design, develop, maintain and enhance free tools to securely transfer files with ease and reliability,' said Tim Kosse, FileZilla Lead Developer. The advertisement has simply been attached to the webpage, without any underlying tracking. Nobody knows that you are reading the advertisements, or that you decided to call or connect to the advertised website. While they do have advertisements on their website, they are posted exactly as advertisements would be posted in a newspaper.

As a result of this process, anyone wanting to use the FileZilla software can trust that it has been cross-scrutinised by a third party and found to be secure.įileZilla respects users' confidentiality: they do not track your behaviour, nor sell your data to other companies. The team conducting the test only found very minor security vulnerabilities that FileZilla were able to fix immediately. These researchers were highly skilled, and the testing was extensive.

A team of independent researchers attempted to force access to the FileZilla server to see if they could gain control. Secondly, FileZilla ran a penetration test, a service offered by OTF's Red Team Lab. The first was integrating FileZilla Server with Let's Encrypt, a free, automated, and open source certificate authority that ensures secure communication between the two end-points sending or receiving a file via FileZilla. Over the past year, FileZilla has utilised support from OTF to undertake two activities that enhanced and ensured the security of their tools. But it also explains how FileZilla has beefed up that security through a collaboration with the internet freedom nonprofit, the Open Technology Fund (or 'OTF'): Started about 21 years ago - and downloaded by millions each year - FileZilla remains 'committed to their role in liberating technology, by making it accessible, open and also secure,' according to the blog post. 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.

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