would it make the site safer? There's a heck of a lot more to making a site safe than changing permissions on a single file, but it can't hurt. Just don't oversell the significance in your mind, it's a part of making it safer, just a part.
Can you overwrite it by FTP? No. You set it to read: owner, group, other. I don't see write in there, do you?
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