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Class powershell and secureString

When trying to access an FTP site, I can use a simple text password in the credentials, and it works fine, but when I use SecureString, it cannot authenticate. Examples:

$pw = "mypw"
$ftp = [system.net.ftpwebrequest] [system.net.webrequest]::create("ftp:myserver")
$ftp.Credentials  = new-object system.net.networkcredential("myuid", $pw)

works great. But the following errors

$pw = "mypw"
$ftp = [system.net.ftpwebrequest] [system.net.webrequest]::create("ftp:myserver")
$ss = convertto-securestring -asplaintext -force $pw
$ftp.Credentials  = new-object system.net.networkcredential("myuid", $ss)

But this fails authentication. What? I do not understand?

(BTW I know that I do not need the plaintext pw in my script. This is just an example.)

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This is because FTP cannot handle anything other than a normal username and password unless you use secure FTP. Is there any confusion here?

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