While the whole activation code is already cracked microsoft change there polisy on it.
icrosoft says it will loosen up the way Windows Product Activation (WPA) works in WinXP, and that it's going to publish details of how it works. This, funnily enough, comes just days after Tecchannel left WPA more or less a smoking ruin, and not that much longer after Fully Licensed published details of, er, how WPA works. |
This sounds suspiciously like a panic move that could end up being a crock. By moving from three items to four, Microsoft is increasing the leeway available for crackers, and the time element quite possibly brings messing around with your system clock into the equation. It may be the case that Microsoft has thought very deeply about this and planned the change carefully, but don't count on it. It's at least equally likely that it's saying where it intends to be, and is now setting the luckless techies the task of figuring out how to get there.
Meanwhile over at Office XP we have a claim from United Cracking Force (UCF) that they've fully cracked protection for all versions of the product, home and business. The Register has been forwarded the crack, which is convincingly large and complicated-looking, but we haven't yet verified whether or not it works. UCF says it's been tested on Italian versions of the product, so it might not turn out to be general. But as Microsoft itself concedes, WPA will always be cracked eventually, so even if this one isn't it, there'll be another along sooner or later. ®
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Source: The Register
