Iranian Government Runs Public Warez Server

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This has nothing to do with Iranian Government. The ftp mentioned are for education/research organization. I grew up in a third world country, we use to have a ftp like this in my university for all kind of software for students. Most of these research/education institutes are under funded and usually the sys admin will think piracy is the best way around it.

This could be just a box in the Iranian government's network which got hacked and hijacked into serving warez.

I once worked as sysadmin in a brazilian university, and it was quite common to stumble on unmaintained and hacked boxes serving warez or movies via FTP with dir hierarchies like /path/to/ftp/root/--==tagged-by-this-group==--/--==uploaded-by-that-group==--/warez/.

They're called pubstros: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pubstro

I am leery of an article posting about warez on an Iranian server and then providing links. Downloading files from an Iranian server is sure to ping some monitors as well as generate some hits on federal systems. It could create a lot of work, or cover for cyber ops.

Also, this isn't a trustworthy source to obtain malware/spyware-free files.

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