Getcher Windows XP product activation keys....

Post #28,403 by marlowe 2/14/02 4:12:49 PM Reply	Getcher Windows XP product activation keys.... [link\|http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/24065.html\|riiiiiight heah!] A cracking system for Windows Product Activation publicised this week may present Microsoft's anti-piracy system with its most serious problem yet. It takes the form of a key generator which appears to produce valid activation keys for Microsoft products, and if this really is the case, it is difficult to see how Microsoft can differentiate between keys issued with legal product, and keys generated by the keymaker. I say: Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum. [link\|http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/marlowe/index.html\|http://www.angelfir...e/index.html] Sometimes "tolerance" is just a word for not dealing with things.
Post #28,625 by static 2/16/02 5:22:53 AM Reply	Took a while. XP has been out - what? 6 months? I don't whether this means that Microsoft's WPA keys are that hard to do or the crackers didn't think it was worth it until recently... Wade. "All around me are nothing but fakes Come with me on the biggest fake of all!"
Post #28,646 by ben_tilly 2/16/02 11:21:12 AM Reply	My guess... People who were interested in that kind of thing didn't bother with the real crack until after they realized that getting one key, having Microsoft break it, getting another etc was getting to be a real pain in the arse. Cheers, Ben
Post #28,664 by pwhysall 2/16/02 3:40:34 PM Reply	There are two sorts of crack for WXP. The first is what the linked article is all about - getting a valid product key. The second is circumventing WPA, which was allegedly done before WXP even hit the (retail) street. Peter Shill For Hire [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal]
Post #28,689 by nking 2/16/02 8:47:32 PM 2/16/02 8:48:49 PM Reply	Yes indeedly doodley! Check out [link\|http://www.astalavista.com\|Astalavista.com] and then search for "Windows XP Crack" and see what comes up in the different search engines. Ignore the porn banners and pop-up ads, and see what the cracks, er ah, fixes and patches will do for you. Delete six files and make one change to the registry and XP never nags you anymore about activation codes. I won't say which ones, but you know where to find out. That is, until Microsoft gets wise to it and the next XP update reinstalls those missing files and flips the setting on the registry to turn the activation check back on. Thai pirates cracked it while it was still in beta. "Will code Visual BASIC for cash." Edited by nking Feb. 16, 2002, 08:48:49 PM EST Expand All History
Post #28,815 by warmachine 2/18/02 11:35:27 AM Reply	Time for periodic checking with the MS database. Now that XP is out there, the next, incremental stage is an update that will check the activation key with a registration DB. Privacy issues, you say? The MS database will only know the registered activation keys, not any personal details. The client machine will do all the asking and disabling and MS can legitimately say they don't know who owns which machine or what's on it. Unless they get a warrant for ISP logs. Cutting Internet connection will break this, of course, but this would be crippling for home users. For business users, there's always auditing. It's not perfect but it'll force enough people to pay. Microsoft Outlook - one, big, macro virus portal.

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