On Fri, Aug 17, 02:06:50 AM, Dave Watson shared with us these pearls of wisdom:
quoted 7 lines What information the key contains, and how it gathers it was released.>What information the key contains, and how it gathers it was released.
>Microsoft approved of that specific company releasing there findings
>probably to ease people's fears/thoughts about MS conspiracy type
>theories. Keep in mind using the current workaround does not allow you
>to copy XP and install it, that requires a proper key which nothing so
>far is able to give you, except for MS. It allows you to use your beta
>copy of XP for longer than the alotted time frame.
Not just MS. If I install XP on, say, a p3 700 with 256mb ram, with the profile
set as a laptop computer in a docking station (which eliminates some of the
hardware checks it does), and my friend wants to install XP on his p3 700 with
256mb ram, he can simply install XP then copy my registration file. One
installation of XP becomes two installations of XP, with only one key and
license. Now if I were to make my key available for public use, anyone with a
p3 700 and 256mb ram could install XP, use my file, and have a working,
registered copy. After XP is in more widespread use, more files will be
distrubuted, and then you'd just have to find a matching file for your
computer, which wouldn't be hard.
quoted 1 line Either way it eventually will be cracked. Luckily there are a myriad of>Either way it eventually will be cracked. Luckily there are a myriad of
Of course. Eventually most of the companies will realize that any copy
protection scheme will eventually be cracked, and hopefully they'll do away
with the B.S. and try to stand more on their merits.
quoted 2 lines free Unices (BSD/Linux) and Mac OS X kind of, as well as old versions of>free Unices (BSD/Linux) and Mac OS X kind of, as well as old versions of
>Windows which will work just as good probably.
Or better. Even for windows users, I wouldn't recommend switching from 2000 to
XP, since all benchmarks I've seen of XP show it as slower than 2000. (Though I
would recommend switching from a 9x to 2000.)
--
-Gregory
I hate trying to come up with something worth saying in a .sig file.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org
For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org