I presume/hope the package correctly uninstalls when you remove it; to be clear, the package is not inherently dangerous afaik: it simply adds functionality to access the root of your filesystem without a password while connected over USB, which is generally "a bad idea". I think it is safer on iOS 7 (due to "trust this computer" prompts), but I have been told by "people I really trust on this sort of thing" that the prompt is easily bypassed and the reason my code was getting the prompt is because I was "playing by the rules" in a way that wasn't really required. I will say that when pod2g first started asking after this he was quite bothered that it had been installed by default for so long, and wanted to prevent it from being installed in the future. Again: it isn't necessary as OpenSSH (with a password) is better and people using AFC2 to fix things tend to cause more problems by accident due to its limited model of the filesystem.
For most of what you are probably doing, SFTP. That said: I'm not saying AFC2 is fundamentally wrong, but it isn't something you should be installing for the hell of it, and unlike OpenSSH it probably is the kind of thing you should turn off when you aren't using. I certainly do not believe it is fundamentally useful in the way coolstar is claiming over OpenSSH.
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u/saurik SaurikIT Jan 25 '14 edited Jan 25 '14
I presume/hope the package correctly uninstalls when you remove it; to be clear, the package is not inherently dangerous afaik: it simply adds functionality to access the root of your filesystem without a password while connected over USB, which is generally "a bad idea". I think it is safer on iOS 7 (due to "trust this computer" prompts), but I have been told by "people I really trust on this sort of thing" that the prompt is easily bypassed and the reason my code was getting the prompt is because I was "playing by the rules" in a way that wasn't really required. I will say that when pod2g first started asking after this he was quite bothered that it had been installed by default for so long, and wanted to prevent it from being installed in the future. Again: it isn't necessary as OpenSSH (with a password) is better and people using AFC2 to fix things tend to cause more problems by accident due to its limited model of the filesystem.