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Re: Connecting Debian to Android phone



On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 02:05:35AM -0500, ken wrote:
> On 01/25/2014 04:35 PM Csanyi Pal wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I want to connect my Samsung Galaxy S4 mini mobile phone with my Debian
> >SID desktop system through an USB cable to transfer files from phone to
> >Debian system. How can I do that?
> >
> >I have installed on the phone the KDE Connect application, and on the
> >Debian Dekstop the kdeconnect debian package, but don't know how to use
> >them?
> >
> 
> For quite a while I've been doing this with a free app from google
> play called Software Data Cable... except what's nicer is that no
> USB cable is necessary.  SDC sets up an ftp server on the phone and
> then the files are transferred (in either direction) between my
> phone and computer over the local network wirelessly.  It's not the
> method you asked about, but I thought you might be interested
> nonetheless.

Given the less than sterling reputation of ftp re: security, is it wise
to do this over wireless? What am I missing?

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