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Vista Activation Cracked by Brute Force
Bengt writes "The Inquirer has a story about a brute force Vista key activation crack. It's nothing fancy; it's described as a 'glorified guesser.' The danger of this approach is that sooner or later the key cracker will begin activating legitimate keys purchased by other consumers. From the article: 'The code is floating, the method is known, and there is nothing MS can do at this point other than suck it down and prepare for the problems this causes. To make matters worse, Microsoft will have to decide if it is worth it to allow people to take back legit keys that have been hijacked, or tell customers to go away, we have your money already, read your license agreement and get bent, we owe you nothing.'"
I can see it now: thousands of computers worldwide activating keys, just to make life miserable for Microsoft and users. It could be called the "annoy Microsoft Windows Users at home" project.
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I guarantee you MSFT will release a patch to reorder license keys or figure out some other solution. If you were the largest software company in the world, and you had a product that was being touted as "more expensive than switching an entire IT department to OSX:, wouldn't you?
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To make matters worse, Microsoft will have to decide if it is worth it to allow people to take back legit keys that have been hijacked, or tell customers to go away, we have your money already, read your license agreement and get bent, we owe you nothing.'
Hmmm, I wonder which way Microsoft will go on this one...
This guy's the limit!
Just as I read this article, pandora.com started playing the title cut from David Wilcox's Vista album:
"...and the wide open vista..."
Why not actually try to read the article to see how the program works?
"I can see it now: thousands of computers worldwide activating keys, just to make life miserable for Microsoft and users. It could be called the "annoy Microsoft Windows Users at home" project."
Yes, but does it run under linux :-)
Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of These!
Windows boxes or botnets? I for one would be frightened of either.
The slashbots are excited because this, *this* will be the thing that makes people go to desktop Linux.
Nobody will upgrade to XP--er.... Nobody will upgrade to Vista because of activation.
Yes! 199-, er...
2003, er....
2007 WILL BE THE YEAR FOR DESKTOP LINUX!!!
I'm not sure boob is really typically British insult, I have a German friend with the same trouble who believes that the word ignoramus is in common enough use to pass himself off as a native although he is sadly mistaken in this.
For future reference you could try using words like:
Fuckwit, wanker, bastard, fuckhead, tosser, cunt, spanner, moron, dickhead or even shit for brains.
For example:
"The commentator on the Inquirer Web site is obviously a total fucking wanker. The fuckwit is cheering theft which is in its own right sleazy. Worse, the cretin seems to be happy that the legitimate and paying Windows Vista customers are going to be at best confused and worst case screwed because some idiot stole their key. What a fucking cock !"
I must admit I probably have the same problem in my belief that most Scottish people curse each other by calling them sassenachs.
Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of These!
imagine a beowulf cluster of cheese!
Stop Computers/Cars Analogies on S
"Any customer who gets their key "stolen" by this program can just take it back - Vista comes with several activations on the same key. Once the customer uses the key, the previous user of it will eventually be required to re-activate."
Someone else is using your activation key: Cancel or Allow?
C'mon, let's give'em credit.. their PR isn't as bad as Sony's!
Misleading titles? Inflammatory blurbs? Keep in mind that Slashdot is a tabloid.
... and failing miserably. Calling someone a "boob" is pure American English - I've lived in both places and only heard it in the US.
It sounds odd to British ears, since "boob" is only used as a childish prurient word for breast. A bit like calling someone a "titty" in the US.
Does this mean that vendors are going to make the pesky product keys even longer? Companies will have to hire data-entry staff just to key them in.
Table-ized A.I.
Nice, you invented the concept of thievery@home. I imagine a print out of lots of vista keys with "wow!" written at the side of one...
Don't you mean re-installed?
or Irony or whatever.
If you need the equivalent of a Cray to run Vista, then it's going to be very efficient at Brute Forcing the keys.
I like it.
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