Ahoy, matey! Vista’s registration features pwned
There are two sides to this story. On one end, you’ve really got to give it to those guys who have managed to hack Windows Vista‘s registration features even before the said OS has been released. You guys are geniuses. On the other hand, Microsoft should really start waking up and start hiring the said hackers instead; then maybe they wouldn’t have to worry about piracy so much, especially when Vista gets launched on January 30, 2007.
That’s right, kiddies, you heard us right. As reported by the IDG News Service, Windows Vista‘s registration features have already been hacked, and a file is already being distributed which allows users of the corporate version of Vista to dodge those anti-piracy traps which Microsoft has painstakingly put into place.
Dubbed as the “MelindaGates Hack”, it goes around the need for Windows Vista to be “activated” before it will work on your machine… and… well, at this point, Yahoo explains the technical
parts best:
To simplify the task of activating many copies of Vista, Microsoft offers corporate users special tools, among them Key Management Service (KMS), which allows a company to run a Microsoft-supplied authorization server on its own network and activate Vista without contacting Microsoft for each copy.
The software Microsoft.Windows.Vista.Local.Activation.Server-MelindaGates lets users spoof that KMS process, allowing them to activate copies of the enterprise editions of Vista, its creators say.
So… Can anyone say “Polly wants a cracker”?
Via Yahoo News
There are two sides to this story. On one end, you’ve really got to give it to those guys who have managed to hack Windows Vista‘s registration features even before the said OS has been released. You guys are geniuses. On the other hand, Microsoft should really start waking up and start hiring the said hackers instead; then maybe they wouldn’t have to worry about piracy so much, especially when Vista gets launched on January 30, 2007.
That’s right, kiddies, you heard us right. As reported by the IDG News Service, Windows Vista‘s registration features have already been hacked, and a file is already being distributed which allows users of the corporate version of Vista to dodge those anti-piracy traps which Microsoft has painstakingly put into place.
Dubbed as the “MelindaGates Hack”, it goes around the need for Windows Vista to be “activated” before it will work on your machine… and… well, at this point, Yahoo explains the technical
parts best:
To simplify the task of activating many copies of Vista, Microsoft offers corporate users special tools, among them Key Management Service (KMS), which allows a company to run a Microsoft-supplied authorization server on its own network and activate Vista without contacting Microsoft for each copy.
The software Microsoft.Windows.Vista.Local.Activation.Server-MelindaGates lets users spoof that KMS process, allowing them to activate copies of the enterprise editions of Vista, its creators say.
So… Can anyone say “Polly wants a cracker”?
Via Yahoo News
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