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News WGA defeated before rollout

Discussion in 'Article Discussion' started by GreatOldOne, 24 May 2005.

  1. GreatOldOne

    GreatOldOne Wannabe Martian

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    GreatOldOne, 24 May 2005
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  2. kenco_uk

    kenco_uk I unsuccessfully then tried again

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    Whatever will they think of next? *coy expression*
     
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  3. Bob 1234

    Bob 1234 What's a Dremel?

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    Told ya so. :D :p

    -Bob
     
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  4. Da Dego

    Da Dego Brett Thomas

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    :D Oh, look, another M$ anti-piracy inconvenience that fails miserably.. ;)
     
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  5. Haddy

    Haddy World Domination

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    Now did they post that report to MS or did they just post it to the internet?
     
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  6. kergareth

    kergareth What's a Dremel?

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    Does it really make a difference?
    Microsoft will read it either way.
     
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  7. Firehed

    Firehed Why not? I own a domain to match.

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    MS: owned as usual.
     
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  8. advance

    advance What's a Dremel?

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    Called it ;p
     
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  9. TheAnimus

    TheAnimus Banned

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    hmm lasted a while thou, the bad part is he pulled the algo which is able to determine if a cd key is one of their legit ones oopsie!

    people bashing MS, show me an anti-piracy software thats able to never be broken, i know some people who will make us a billion within a week (and i'm not kidding about that! the problem is its your PC, the copy protection software is a virus, which you can just patch round because you where inside the CPU/HOST-OS first).
     
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  10. Firehed

    Firehed Why not? I own a domain to match.

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    Wait a second... if I read that right, MS is now worse off than before since more illegal keys can be generated. re-lol. Didn't read the full thing so I'm assuming they'll pull that... whatever...
     
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  11. simon w

    simon w What's a Dremel?

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    They've basically released a keygen for their own product :D
     
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  12. Firehed

    Firehed Why not? I own a domain to match.

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    Well you still need to pirate the software itself, and I think it's safe to say most pirated versions include a keygen or have been cracked to not require activation. But yeah, funny how they pulled that off.
     
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  13. TheAnimus

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    its all due to the fact you can read the machine code algorythm for the key validation, then once you understand it, you can either reverse engineer the algo to generate keys from a seed, or you can just one step away from copy & paste brute force run every number down the algo, and keep those which work.

    Now any form of inteligant critisim would be "why wasn't that been done on the server side" Ie, why wasn't the key be transmitted in a public private key manner to the server and the validation performed on the server.

    the problem with this is, it relies on the information been transmitted to be true. How do you actually make a program that knows its not running on a vritual layer on the system to probe the system? The only way to do it is to make soo many differen't version which don't have enough smililarities for the same solution to work on all them.
     
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