Guardian "walked back the 'direct access' claim made in Greenwald’s original article"

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

21. back in my real world all FTP is SFTP and on a junk server

Anyone who creates an FTP directory on the same server with live secure data is inviting increased risk. Anyone who uses FTP at all is inviting risk. I won't use unsecure FTP at all, and my SFTP directories are on a separate box on a separate net with nothing of importance on it. I assume the confusion stems from non-tech writers trying to explain technical details.

What intrigued me about the original post in this thread was that two others from Guardian rewrote the original story and not the original author. It isn't often that major newspapers have others rewrite their headliners.

No, we don't know whether the internet giants are telling the truth, but it is interesting to note that the Guardian felt it necessary to walk back the original story to match that given by google et al.