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Submission + - Vista activation circumvented with BIOS emulation

Submitted by

Steve Kerrison

on Sunday March 04, 2007 @05:55PM

Steve Kerrison writes: "If a brute force Vista product key-gen won't work, then a tool to exploit the volume licensing used by OEMs might. HEXUS.net reports that a toolkit has been produced that emulates an OEM BIOS to make the system appear as a pre-activated machine. Combined with the correct certificate and OEM key, Vista won't perform any further activation."

Submission + - New Java research obfuscator with examples

Submitted by on Sunday March 04, 2007 @05:36PM

An anonymous reader writes: JBCO is a new Java Obfuscator developed by a graduate student at McGill University. What's most interesting is the examples of decompiled source showing the results of these obfuscations. The results of the duplicate bytecode sequence reuse transformation is particularly interesting. The research paper is availablehere.

Journal Journal: Office 2007 Wrecks Outlook Express Spell Check.

Journal by Erris on Sunday March 04, 2007 @05:32PM

Ai-Eeee! ca c'est bon, no?:

Much to the delight of Francophiles everywhere, Microsoft's Office 2007 switches Outlook Express spell-checkers to work only in French. Those disposed to communicate in other languages are being advised to use third-party programs.

No, that's not good. Microsoft French is probably worse than mine. I'm glad to be a Kontact user.

Submission + - BulletProof pendrive video test

Submitted by

justelite

on Sunday March 04, 2007 @04:53PM

justelite writes: "PRETEC tell us that i-Disk BulletProof is constructed with double layers of metal protection, capable of sealing water or fire from damaging the circuit, and even shield of the heavy impact of a bullet. But this BulletProof is for real? A video test show us that i-Disk BulletProof "survive" to 44 gun but not to a 500 Magnum."

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