Persuasive Engineering

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A simple FileZilla feature has been causing outages for nearly twenty years

0 implied HN points • 22 May 23

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In FileZilla, drag and drop can delete without confirmation, causing accidental outages.
Accidental deletions from servers can break applications and crucial scripts.
Consider disabling drag and drop in FileZilla and reevaluate using FTP for production instances.