[quote]It appears that Keznews forum member Snooza has discovered a method that effectively obtains a Windows Vista key which can then be activated. The idea is a simple brute force attack: the software generates keys and when it finds one, you manually have to check if it activates. The 8-step method can take anywhere from two minutes to two days. Members of the forum have verified the strategy and claim it works. This technique should worry Microsoft, not because they are losing customers to piracy again, but because the customers who are actually spending the money on the latest Windows version may start being unable to activate the software with a legally purchased key. It seems that the main issue is time, and with today’s modern PCs, it really isn’t that much of a problem. Evidently, pirates would rather wait a couple of hours, than go to work and make the money needed to purchase a legal copy. The author of the article over at Keznews has a disclaimer which emphasizes that, “under no circumstances should anyone sell the key that they generate. I do not support Piracy, this was simply an experiment in which i used to practice my vbscripting. This was just for fun and was a complete accident! I strongly encourage everyone to purchase windows vista, and be a genuine customer!

Wow, I mean, who would've thought that brute forcing would do the trick!  Evidently, Microsoft is super stupid.

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:Microsoft is super stupid.

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lol double you tee eff 8)7 they just WANT ppl to crack it so they can sue them...

man everything will always get cracked windows can't win, neither can alot of the software developers out there, stuff is made so ppl find a way around it, when i wanted to go to the pool(lived in apts)and didnt have a key i jumped the fence

*edit for more e-pigs to afford a moon ;)

(This post was last modified: 21/02/2008 08:58 PM by beaner2k6.)