Pubstro

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A pubstro (or just stro) is a hacked computer or server with an installed FTP server. This FTP server is used to facilitate the transferring and spreading of warez, or copyrighted software. Originally these 'stro' were used to overcome the limitation of home broadband speeds. At the height of their popularity ADSL1 and ADLS2 were the most prevalent - only offering some 5-20mbit per second download and even less on upload speeds. These speed limitations stifled the ability to easily share large copyrighted material. These limitation were overcome with the move to HFC and Fibre networks with the arrival of faster home Internet connections Torrents became a viable alternative. These 'stro' would be shared via FXP Boards. Bulletin Board websites that would share Warez releases and would also have "Scanners" & "Hackers" that would 'scan' for open ports and 'hack' (exploit) the vulnerabilities to then upload their FTP Server software to be filled by "FXPing" FXPing (See flashFXP software) (Having one FTP tranfer directly to another FTP - this would allow a home user with a relatively slow internet speed to be able to transfer files at the bandwidth limits of the two 'stros' in a number of cases being greater than 100Mbit or even 1GBit.…

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