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Learn to transfer files securely and effectively.

News and Follow-ups – 00:38

• Mark steps on USB cable and just about ruins Faceoff
• Titanpad – Etherpad resurrected

Geek Tool – 04:27

• Hand Powered 3-LED Flashlight – Squeeze it to recharge so you can always have light
• Coast Cutlery LL7575 Auto LED Light – Light that recharges in your car port

Webapps – 07:58

• PDFcrowd – Create PDFs from HTML (URLs, Inputted html)
• ManPacks – Subscribe to your manly essentials

Topic – 17:27

• File Transfer
  • FTP
    • The RFC was in 1971
    • No encryption, everything is in the clear and is vulnerable to sniffing
  • FTPS
    • FTP over SSL
  • SFTP
    • SSH extension for FTP.  (not just a tunnel over ssh).
  • SCP
    • RCP over SSH
  • Rsync
    • Super efficient, often used for doing amazon S3 transfers when you are paying for bandwidth by the byte.
    • Only transfers the bytes that are missing
    • Duplicity - Supports rsync like efficiency on encrypted files
  • WebDAV
  • Clients
    • Filezilla
      • Supports FTP, FTPS, SFTP
    • WinSCP
      • Supports FTP, SCP, SFTP
  • Workflow
    • Capistrano
      • Ruby
      • Can use any of the protocols above
    • Fabric
      • Python
      • Can use any of the protocols above
    • Version control
      • Git, HG, Subversion etc.