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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. No more updates? by cdagobah · · Score: 0, Troll

    If MS blocks updates to only legit windows users, all the pirates are going to be forced switch to a more secure OS. It'll be the only way they can protect their PCs from their own viruses! If you ask me, MS is shooting themselves in the foot. Their precious "market share" is going to drop due to the pirates switching to something else. Not a good thing to be doing when Apple just announced they'll be compatible with Intel chips.

    1. Re:No more updates? by jawtheshark · · Score: 1, Troll
      Apple? Yes, they made you pay... Except if you were a pirate. I mean: I got Panther from a friend and used it for about a year. The next OS I was going to pay for was the one I would get with my next Apple.

      Alas, my G3 iBook broke from a known logic board failure (which apple aknowlegdes, but only for users that have their machine for less than 3 years) and I can't use it anymore. No more Apple for me: they were supposed to last longer than PCs (and not a mere 4.5 years). Especially I have laptop PCs that lasted for over 5 years. Fuckers...
      No seriously, OS X is easy to pirate and on top of that all updates are free. No license checking as with Microsoft.

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      Ahhh...the great dumpster continuum. Many a free computer will be found there. -- sowth (748135)
  2. Need Details by silverbolt · · Score: 1, Troll

    This smacks of vaporware. Which "high profile security mailing list" ? What was the exploit ? When and where did Microsoft "confirm" the findings ?

  3. MS just warming up more bloat for Longhorn by pallmall1 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Windows XP will be going the end-of-life way of Windows 2000 in the near future. Micros**t is just beta testing another fork-the-user method they're going to stick in Wronghorn before they stick it in users ... again.

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    3 things about computers: they're alive, they're self-aware, and they hate your guts.
  4. Re:We HAVE to use windows... by geminidomino · · Score: 0, Troll

    You only "have to use it" if your primary use for a $2000 computer is essentially emulating a $300 game console.

  5. No fun. by padamj · · Score: 0, Troll

    I don't understand what's the use of this....

    Why would anyone want to replicate bad software, by a bad company trying to take over the world by monopilistic attitude.

    Use Linux/Apple, pirating M$ is only benefiting M$.

    A lot of us know that M$ workings are unethical. So stealing from a thief doesn't help!