In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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wrote
on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:21:41 +0000
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> Amidst Boom, Warning Signs On The Horizon
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> | Reports about the crack started circulation online a few weeks
> | ago. The method uses a feature that allows system builders to
> | qualify new computers as licensed by inserting a short digital
> | marker in the BIOS. Upon detection of this special marker,
> | Windows XP and Vista bypass product activation and anti-piracy
> | checks.
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> http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2187590/microsoft-mulls-counterattack
>
Um....is it me, or does this approach sound entirely
freaking .... BRAIN DEAD!!!
:-P
"Oh yeah, let's put a marker in that everyone can duplicate
with little more than a PROM burner, and let Windows bypass
its security checks if it sees the marker."
(Unless that marker includes a copyright declaration,
in which case the authorities might at least be able to
arrest them -- if they can find them and haul them into
a US court...)
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