Simon Donkers - Slashdot User

Windows Vista Keygen a Hoax 154

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday March 03, 2007 @10:14AM from the too-good-to-be-true dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The author of the Windows Vista keygen that was reported yesterday has admitted that the program does not actually work. Here is the initial announcement of the original release of the keygen, and here is the followup post in which the same author acknowledges that the program is fake. Apparently, the keygen program does legitimately attack Windows Vista keys via brute force, but the chances of success are too low for this to be a practical method. Quote from the author: 'Everyone who said they got a key is probably lying or mistaken!'"

Submission + - Students charged in online snow-day hoax

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We used to pull the fire alarm

on Sunday February 11, 2007 @01:58AM

We used to pull the fire alarm writes: "Two teenage girls caused a number of parents to keep their kids home from school by posting a fake announcement that school was cancelled due to snow. The best part: some parents fell for it even though it wasn't snowing!

From the article: "The two Edgewood High School students, whose names were not released, were charged in juvenile court on Friday and face expulsion. One of the girls, 16, was charged with delinquency by unauthorized use of a computer and by reason of records tampering. The other, 17, was charged with delinquency by reason of complicity, Sheriff's Sgt. Monte Mayer said."

The punishment seems harsh considering the hosting company "said the system was not hacked into because no security breach was detected" and again, it wasn't snowing. Is this another case like the Boston Cartoon Netork Fiasco where pranksters are being punished for making adults look like idiots? Or do these girls deserve to be in handcuffs for making what seems to be a funny forum post?"

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