TheRegister has a newposting that there seems to be a so called 'keygenerator' available for Windows XP. This generator generates the keys that are needed when you want to activate your Microsoft Windows XP.
Judging by the time taken to generate keys there's a significant amount of crunching going on, but on the other hand as this is precisely the sort of thing Microsoft must have anticipated when it devised WPA, it's not nearly as much crunching as you'd expect. If one morally questionable teenie can successfully generate one operational key by leaving their home PC running overnight, then Redmond has quite clearly blundered. 25 in a night counts as blundering big-time. |
Prior to the keymaker WPA had been cracked, although that rather depended on what you meant by the word; as Microsoft has heroically argued, being pirated wholesale and being cracked are in fact two different things. Philosphically, anyway. Patched versions swiftly became available when the software went gold, but essentially these can be termed unauthorised distributions/variants of the software, and although it means people can get it for free, Microsoft has the capability of zapping their installations as a side-effect of service packs and similar. As yet the company doesn't seem to have used Windows Update to deactivate warez systems, but it's possible.
Keygenerators are available for a wide range of software, and I guess everyone who did pirated software once knows how they work. It seems that even Microsoft can't secure their software good enough to protect themselves from the crackers.
But well who did expect that their Windows XP activation copy protection would last ? Microsoft is probably the most hated, largest company with products that are widely used.
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Source: TheRegister.co.uk
