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Comment Alienware R4 (Score 1) 558

by Vanilla_Jedi on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @12:29PM (#49883777) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Hardware Is In Your Primary Computer?

Yes, I know that I'm a sellout for not making my own system (which I know how to do). However, sometimes it's just nice to have someone else supply the parts when things go wrong :-) 3930K Overclocked to 3.8 Ghz- 16 Gb of RAM - 2TB 7.2K drive - 2 x 1TB 7.2k drives for backup - 1 x 680 GTX Lightening 2GB - Triple Monitors 1080P - Accessories: Cougar HOTAS (For flight sims) - Thrustmaster Pedals (For flight sims) - Track IR 5 (Great for DayZ) -

Submission + - Vista activation cracked by brute force

Submitted by Bengt on Friday March 02, 2007 @05:27AM

Bengt writes: The Inquirer has a story about a brute force Vista key activation crack.

From TFA: The crack is a glorified guesser, and with the speed of modern PCs and the number of outstanding keys, the 25-digit serials are within range. The biggest problem for MS? If this gets widespread, and I hope it will, people will start activating legit keys that are owned by other people.

There is really no differentiating between a legit copy with a manually typed in wrong key and a hack attempt. Sure MS can throttle this by limiting key attempts to one a minute or so on new software, but the older variants are already burnt to disk. The cat is out of the bag. The crack was first mentioned on the Keznews forums, a step by step How-to can be found HERE

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