SSH — or more accurately, the SSH suite of utilities — is a replacement for telnet, FTP, rsh and rcp. All network traffic in an SSH connection is encrypted in contrast to the case with the older utilities listed where traffic is "plain text" — for example, your username and password can easily be intercepted as they travel over the network. Quoting from The Definitive Guide to SSH: "Yikes!".
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