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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.'"
MOD PARENT DOWN -1, REDUNDANT. THIS HAS ALREADY BEEN SUGGESTED 2 OR 3 TIMES IN THE COMMENTS!!!
really, doesnt this seem like a lot of work to install something that doesnt work as well as what you have now? Just seems silly to bother..
... there is no way this is the GNAA's fault!
the company is not going to put up with re-activation every few days because a bunch of users in China are stealing their keys
Nice flamebait asshole. The article says nothing about China. What's to say that a "bunch of users" in high crime-rate countries run by war-mongers wouldn't do the same?
6 months?! Jesus thats a long amount of time. Im lucky if my version of XP remains un self destructed for 6 weeks. Id hate to think how quick vista will break itself. Pretty soon you wont get a disk anymore, windows will have just destroyed itself before you get anywhere near it.