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sime

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Indian cracks Microsoft's anti-piracy program
« on: 23 June 2005, 12:16 »
One day the muppets that make decisions @ MS will think before they open their gobs and spout bull. What exactly do you think the reaction of hackers will be to bollocks statements such as "impenetrable" Windows Genuine Advantage of Microsoft.

Yup you got it ... http://inhome.rediff.com/money/2005/jun/21ms.htm

Later

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Re: Indian cracks Microsoft's anti-piracy program
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Indian cracks Microsoft's anti-piracy program

Alok Sharma | June 21, 2005 14:53 IST

An Indian researcher has breached the much-touted "impenetrable" Windows Genuine Advantage of Microsoft.

Bangalore-based Debasis Mohanty has cracked WGA through an "easy-to-exploit" weakness in the software for generating illegal copies of the Windows XP programme.

Microsoft confirmed the claims of Mohanty, but sought to downplay it saying, "It represents very little threat." A company spokesperson said they did expect counterfeiters to try a number of different methods to circumvent safeguards provided by WGA.

WGA is an anti-piracy programme that keeps a tab on consumers whether they are running legitimately licensed copies of Windows XP.

Mohanty has posted a detailed proof-of-concept programme on the high-profile security mailing list of the software giant, showing how the WGA validation check can be tricked to generate key codes for use on illegal copies of the software.

Using a secondary Microsoft validation tool called 'genuinecheck.Exe', Mohanty claims to have made it possible for people to trick the safeguard mechanism and download and run the supposedly restricted software from Microsoft's download centre, he said.


very cool!

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Re: Indian cracks Microsoft's anti-piracy program
« Reply #2 on: 26 June 2005, 13:04 »
I kind of get the distinct impression that they want people to try to crack it, so that they can have other people do the work for them, so that they can plug up the holes that they leave. I know that the moment that they put this crap out again with their "big" fix that someone will be able to get around even that!lol