Government Intranet Packed Full of Warez
Written by enigmax on June 04, 2009Since 2005, a Brazilian senator has been pushing for tough new ‘cybercrime’ legislation which would include measures against file-sharing. However, before thinking of unleashing new laws on the public, the government should look closer to home, since the senate’s intranet is loaded with an impressive amount of warez.
Since 2005, Brazilian senator Eduardo Azeredo has been proposing new ‘cybercrimes’ legislation. Unlike many European proposals, this one isn’t restricted to copyright issues but encompasses all “dangerous” activities online. From cellphone cloning to pedophilia, from creating a virus to file-sharing – the proposal is to criminalize it all and back it up with arrests and jail time of up to three years.
The current wording of the proposals have strong opposition in Brazil and an online petition against the legislation has more than 148,000 signatures. There has even been opposition from other politicians, with the secretary of legislative affairs Peter Abramovay commenting, “This surveillance could turn everyone on the Internet into a criminal. The Internet is a space of freedom par excellence, and should not be a place of fear,” he said.
However, the senator pushing for the legislation should look closer to home, since an investigation by Congressoemfoco has turned up something of significant interest on the Brazilian senate’s intranet, which runs counter to their mission statement shown below;
To provide and manage solutions for information technology and communications for the Senate, and improve work processes, contributing to the excellence and ethics fulfillment of its institutional role for the benefit of Brazilian society
To Congressoemfoco’s surprise, what they discovered on the government servers was a small mountain of copyrighted movies, music and games in several folders. These folders are available to the Senate’s staff and the senators themselves, including Eduardo Azeredo, the senator pushing for tough legislation against pirates.
Warez on the Senate’s Intranet
Accessing the material proved easy enough. Anyone on the network could make a few clicks to get access to the folders. One of them around 6.4Gb in size contained music from Nelly Furtado through to albums by Megadeth, along with Brazilian acts and more well known groups such as Pink Floyd. Other folders included many top-rated PC games. Movies didn’t escape either, with Hollywood movies such as Iron Man, a DVD screener copy of Gran Torino and Happy Feet, all available for download by those running the country.
Once the government found out about this situation, they took steps to remedy it, promising an ‘internal investigation’ although sources suggest that this will likely amount to little more than a quick band-aid application.
“A network with more than ten thousand users is not easy [to monitor],” they said.
Thanks Luiz
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That’s hilarious!
Well, I’m from Brazil.
And guess what? That’s not surprising at all lol
Weak for removing my comment, but interesting story none the least.
if they can’t monitor 10000 people how they expect to monitor the whole Brazilian internet community?
Imagine that. *giggle*
The dictionary word “hypocrite” now has a picture beside it.
lol… Ouh the irony :D Let RIAA sue Brazilian government for some $ and disconnect government IP’s involved in copyright infringement form Internet to make things even more funnier :D
BTW isn’t it a good idea to do in France? Make it so that government IP’s will be disconnected because copyrighted materials are downloaded from them :D
pure luls all the way Go Brazil!
They should just give up now. Who are they kidding when this sort of hypocrisy is occurring?
As if anyone is going to listen to them now.
One person can’t speak for a whole government ;)
i wonder how many times senator Eduardo Azeredo have accessed those files. :)
lol pathetic.
This is pure lulz. ;))
Look, the files are NTFS-encrypted, the name is colored blue.
loool
Geez Luiz.
hehe
There’s another important aspect about this subject: NOTHING was said on TVs or newspappers! Currently, in Brazil,all the traditional media is clearly involved with the management of public opinion, to justify the need of a new ’cybercrime’ legislation…
K.I.S.S. is right. Mainstream media in brazil fears file sharing. Since they control all and any hollywod movie on TV. Lots of stuff dont show up on tv nor cinemas here, other stay just few weeks or less.
So how to expect someone to watch a movie if in 5 days it’s off? what about those too busy during week… stupid.
Brazilain govern = joke
If you go to any town you’ll find someone selling out pirated dvds the old way. Why not fight this scumbags making out money of it, before targeting users who share for free, for good.
Thanks a lot enigmax, and thanks to Luiz too.
Wow, way to fail … epic!
It’s amusing to not only see this, but their response that a network with many users is not easy to monitor. Do you realize what the internet is? It’s a network with hundreds of millions of users.
Think that’s funny, most major media and broadcast companies have warez on their internal networks as well. SWIM has seen it first hand and laughed his ass off. Oh the irony. It’s still all too funny.
Embarrassing isn’t it? and r2 I’m with u.. but its not just Brazilian government that’s a joke. ALL of them are.
The article forgot to mention that Mrs Azeredo is involved or was involved in a corruption case that made front pages in Brazil LoL
22 de novembro de 2007 – Mensalão tucano (a.k.a. mensalão mineiro, a.k.a. valerioduto tucano)
http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/brasil/ult96u357113.shtml
oops! Mr. Azeredo and not Mrs. sorry.
please note that the President Lula and his team on a trip to russia watched
a pirated copy of a brazilian movie on board the presidential airplane.
I’m from Brazil and I saw this news on the web. The Company Televisions from Brazil don’t say ANY line on TV… There’s too much people interesting in this projetct.
The projet was named “Ai5-Digital” and we don’t need this.
There’s too much problem in the country and Azeredo dont’t see!
Thank you to all involved in breaking this story. Entertaining as always. Keep fighting the good fight!
@brazillian friends: The http://www.trezentos.blog.br/?p=1664&owa_from=feed&owa_sid= is reporting that “O Globo” finally have an article on this.
Funny how they are doing stuff to prevent piracy when they can’t even monitor what is on their own servers <.<
http://raoworld.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/double-facepalm.jpg
http://raoworld.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/double-facepalm.jpg
*double facepalm*
was there a pr0n folder?
cool story bro :)
dude only 10k users? psh, u can police that no problem. i’ve got that many PC’s on the network we manage. we have 35k users. it’s a very large high school network. i luled over this.
I’m not surprised.
We do this kind of stuff at the office everyday. In fact I’m going to load some Heroes episodes for a colleague in the next 3 mins ;)
Oh dear!!!
I’m from Portugal.
Since my country left out companies from an ISO file format approval meeting for M$ because “there is no space left in the meeting room”, I can’t criticize.
But we did discover Brazil 500 years ago, so…
Keep the lulz coming!!
Mind the turd in your own underpants before you go looking for the turd in other peoples’ undies Gubberment!
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Brilliant =]
Does anything else need saying?
Everyone loves warez!
Also save that “A network with more than ten thousand users is not easy [to monitor],” quote for when they try to regulate the net. Shove it back in the faces.
UR COMPANY IS BEST COMPANY
@ 12 CryoFreezr
Im pretty sure the blue just means NTFS file compression is on, they could be encrypted but you cant tell just by looking at that pic.
There more than likely just compressed.
* Actually a google search just told me Blue is compressed and Green is encrypted. So there ya go.
LOL, do as I say not as I do comes to mind here!
That’s just awesome Brazil. Not as awesome as my groinal garden, but almost.
“A network with more than ten thousand users is not easy [to monitor],”
This is coming from people that want to monitor the entire internet? It that’s not irony I don’t know what is.
““A network with more than ten thousand users is not easy [to monitor],” they said.”
And the internet will be easier?
For the lulz!
As a former brazilian government worker (that worried himself to death with piracy so I cracked down on it), this has me in a fit of laughter.
Only 6.4gb of music thats nothing!
The Hunt For Gollum.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103673352&sc=fb&cc=fp
When people start crying like babies just turn your back on them and search for better alternatives.
Don’t give those fools your hard earned cash stop consuming the commercial stuff and hurt them where it counts in their pockets LoL
ps: those fan films are popping like popcorn everywhere.
- Troops (1997)
- Half-Life: Escape from City-17
Who needs studios and labels?
one word: hypocrite
Im a Brazilian, and I say that everyone here do that, its a part of our national culture, we just love what other country do and we take it as it was a part of mankind property. I dont think its funny, its rather typical Id say. And everyone in the world has access to this by torrent or direct download in North America and European sites.
We all are hypocrite for saying thats wrong what we all do.
The smell of fail is in the air…
10,000 facepalms
Mind the turd in your own underpants before you go looking for the turd in other peoples’ undies Gubberment!
haha, you can easily see a aXXO release in the middle of the rest of the files.
A simple case of “MY Rules Don’t Apply To ME, Because I Am Your God.”
It’s Brasil Man! It’s Brasil…
by CryoFreezr
This is pure lulz. ;))
“Look, the files are NTFS-encrypted, the name is colored blue.”
NTFS-Encrypted is green usually. Blue is compressed.
bloody typical!! dont do what i do, do what i tell you!! try practising what you preach. as for the statement:
“A network with more than ten thousand users is not easy [to monitor],” they said.” anyone and everyone is supposed to be able to monitor however many users (hundreds of thousands) the anti-piracy orgs say, but these cant monitor their own intranet. what absolute bollocks!! 2 faced assholes!
Even if they approve this legislation, if they FAIL to control 10k users, they will certainly fail to control 15-20M users. Thats a “good” point in being Brazilian, even if this legislation is approved, they will probably fail to control te users, and the legislation will be forgotten. And I will continue to torrent my precious animes lol.
Well you can certainly count on nobody taking these morons seriously..
I wonder what its like to have thousands of people laughing at how pathetic you are.. its like seeing someone hit a glass door.. its just hilarious..
Arrrrrrrr!
owned u bastard
Holy crap thats insane!
If they can’t manage a 10k user network, how can they expect to manage the entire population of Brazil?
I wonder if the RIAA would persue the good senator or if they allow their lapdogs to crap on the carpet every now and then?
In Brazil you can get any movie DVD you want for 1 real (aprox. 50 dollar cents) with a 10 minutes walk at most. Indeed, online file sharing won’t even take off here because physical piracy is way too cheap and widespread. Maybe that’s also why our internet reach 8MBs at the extremely costly plans, and that only on select regions of the big cities, at prices of more than 100 dollars each month.
And someone inside our congress breaking the law is as obvious as saying that we breathe in order to stay alive.
95% of Brazilian politicians are CRIMINALS who get rich by doing stuff like that. I mean the gov has no money to pay for software? But it’s okay to GIVE AWAY money to Africa and Venezuela… Cool.
Great example, you guys!
Well if anyone wants to sue them and put them in prison, that would actually be a favor for the country.
I’m 100% sure nothing will happen though, as usual.
MAFIAA way of thinking:
Hurry up! the sheep are rebelling!
they are trying to approve a law that they don’t even understand. most of the politicians in brazil only has study a few years. they don’t undertand how big internet is, they are there only to became rich stealing your money. financing a lot of travels with the money from our taxes.
Lula is lulz
very nice article.
get more i found on net:
http://rashidhackingarticles.blogspot.com
Lulz indeed. Copyright hypocrisy is evidently not unique to those in the MAFIAA; governments seem to be full of it as well.
I’m reminded of a line from an old Grateful Dead song, “And the politicians throwing stones”.
We should just share our gov P2P.server and everyone should have access..
What, no porn? And you call that warez? :)
How morally clean, ain’t'em?
LOL
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Interesting, they state that a network with a little more than 10,000 users is hard to monitor… How the F*CK would they catch the pedophiles and real criminals? In all honesty they are nothing but f*cking hypocrites.
poor old senator !
making fun of him self
did they find porn among his Dl’s ?
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