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The only situation where this will really affect security is the home user. Any situation where this could affect a corporate network.... well... they deserve it then.
The only thing this exploit will allow you to do is root the machine. Big deal, this gives you access to files on that machine, but you already had access to that machine, and in a Domain, local admin access doesn't get you squat. Only situation where it really matters is if the domain admin runs it on a domain controller, at which point he deserves what he gets.
They had better read this article quick, before they run out of money.....
Unless of course.... you don't suppose... they might know what they're doing? Naw......
I'm sure they'd just throw a billion dollars in advertising at something they never bothered to think through.
Gimme a break, MS may have more money than brains, but to get to the position they're in they've still got to have a lot of brains. They know what they're doing. Right now, as you read this, they have very smart overly paid people sitting around thinking about crap like this.
Well you're close, but not quite. Sierra started it with half life. The keygens are actually the same, the keys you generate are exactly the same as the keys they generate, the only thing is that all the keys they generate go into a database of theirs that gets checked whenever you try to play the game online. The number of keys you can generate is so huge compared to the number of keys that they have actually generated and stored in their database that you can guess for a long time before you get one that's correct.
Of course they usually have a limit on the number of tries one IP can make in a certain amount of time, otherwise it WOULD be pretty easy just to hammer the database with requests until one of your generated keys match theirs.
The main problem there is that you kill most of your syndication potential then, and from what I've read, most shows don't make a profit when they first run, they actually loose money, but syndication more than makes up for it later.
Man, I used to OWN at Tetris game B, I remember a time at which I literally saw tetris in my head even when I wasn't playing. Level 9 Height 5 got to be too simple. On the gameboy I know you could hold down the down arrow when you turned the gameboy on and whatever level you picked, it would be 10 higher than that(really really fast) I think I got up to beating Level 12 Height 5. (Theoretical level 12 anyway, it was still really cool) I used to love beating up on all my family members in multiplayer:)
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The only situation where this will really affect security is the home user. Any situation where this could affect a corporate network.... well... they deserve it then.
The only thing this exploit will allow you to do is root the machine. Big deal, this gives you access to files on that machine, but you already had access to that machine, and in a Domain, local admin access doesn't get you squat. Only situation where it really matters is if the domain admin runs it on a domain controller, at which point he deserves what he gets.
They had better read this article quick, before they run out of money.....
Unless of course.... you don't suppose... they might know what they're doing? Naw......
I'm sure they'd just throw a billion dollars in advertising at something they never bothered to think through.
Gimme a break, MS may have more money than brains, but to get to the position they're in they've still got to have a lot of brains. They know what they're doing. Right now, as you read this, they have very smart overly paid people sitting around thinking about crap like this.
Well you're close, but not quite. Sierra started it with half life. The keygens are actually the same, the keys you generate are exactly the same as the keys they generate, the only thing is that all the keys they generate go into a database of theirs that gets checked whenever you try to play the game online. The number of keys you can generate is so huge compared to the number of keys that they have actually generated and stored in their database that you can guess for a long time before you get one that's correct.
Of course they usually have a limit on the number of tries one IP can make in a certain amount of time, otherwise it WOULD be pretty easy just to hammer the database with requests until one of your generated keys match theirs.
The main problem there is that you kill most of your syndication potential then, and from what I've read, most shows don't make a profit when they first run, they actually loose money, but syndication more than makes up for it later.
As long as we're wishing....
I'd like a Pony....
Man, I used to OWN at Tetris game B, I remember a time at which I literally saw tetris in my head even when I wasn't playing. Level 9 Height 5 got to be too simple. On the gameboy I know you could hold down the down arrow when you turned the gameboy on and whatever level you picked, it would be 10 higher than that(really really fast) I think I got up to beating Level 12 Height 5. (Theoretical level 12 anyway, it was still really cool) I used to love beating up on all my family members in multiplayer :)