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Microsoft Genuine Advantage Cracked

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the absolutely-secure dept.

piyush ranjan writes "An Indian researcher has cracked the much-touted "impenetrable" Windows Genuine Advantage of Microsoft. According to Microsoft this service would soon require all Windows users to verify their license before downloading updates."

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  1. Re:Hacked from the inside? by shm · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Fuck off, racist asshole.

  2. Re:Asymmetrical motivation by mwillems · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    >>Against guerillas, a fortress is good protection

    No, it is not. Against stpuid armies it is. Guerillas just walk pas the wall pretending to be peasants. Think Green Line. Think Viet Cong. Hamas. Etc.

    As for the argument "You have to be lucky always, we only have to be lucky once" - that is often heard but is shows a total lack of simple maths. It is mathematically unsound if you do not take the probabilities into account. "Once lucky at 0.00000000001% chance" is a lot LESS likely than "1000 times lucky at 99% chance".

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  3. Re:I Put an end to it two years ago. by felixdzerzhinsky · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I install Debian linux. These days I run Ubuntu.

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  4. Re:Asymmetrical motivation by replicant108 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    The population is becoming VERY disenchanted with the IRA.

    Since the IRA ceasefire, Sinn Fein (who represent the political ideals of the IRA) have become the majority 'Catholic' party by a very clear margin. Support for Republican ideals is therefore arguably stronger than ever. The implication of your statement, that things changed (which they clearly have) simply because Catholics became disenchanted with the IRA is very misleading.

    I'm sorry if this seems off-topic, but in fact it has an important bearing on your analogy.