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Skriven 2007-03-04 08:56:42 av mike (1:379/45)
  Kommentar till text 16678 av Rich Gauszka (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: Brute force Keygen cracks Vista - a hoax?
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From: mike <mike@barkto.com>



... or did he have to say that because he found the NSA back door into Windows?

  /m<g>



On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 21:59:35 -0500, "Rich Gauszka"
<gauszka@dontspamhotmail.com> wrote:

>
>
>http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/10119/1103/
>
> The man who cracked Vista, known as 'Computer User' at the KezNews.Com
>Forum, has admitted in a posting entitled "Brute force keygen a phoney" that
>the keygen doesn't actually work, even as Microsoft are reported to be
>investigating the crack to see if it works or not.
>'Computer User' said that "fact is the brute force keygen is a joke, i never
>intended for it to work. I have never gotten it to work, everyone should
>stop using it! everyone who said they got a key is probably lying or
>mistaken! i suggest everyone uses the 120 day 3x rearm method."
>
>
>
>"Rich Gauszka" <gauszka@-nospam-hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:45e8c6be$1@w3.nls.net...
>> will the WGA team ever sleep now?
>>
>> Using Vista to crack Vista
>>
>> http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=296
>>
>> A lot of tech sites seem to have totally misunderstood how this works.
>> Many seems to think that this crack somehow relies on hammering
>> Microsoft's activation servers 20,000 times an hours.  This is inaccurate.
>> This crack uses Vista itself to check that the key is in an acceptable
>> format.  Only after a key that's accepted by Vista does the user have to
>> attempt activation.  Limiting how many times an IP address can access the
>> activations servers would have no effect on this.  The real weakness here
>> is that Microsoft has relied on a script to control licensing and as a
>> result it makes this kind of attack easier because the script can be
>> easier modified and tampered with.
>>
>> Over on KezNews.com a brute force method for acquiring a usable product
>> key for Microsoft's Vista platform has been released.
>>
>> he brute force keygen relies on replacing the software license manager
>> script slmgr.vbs with one that's been modified to search for valid
>> 25-character product keys. Periodically you have to check manually to see
>> if they key has changed and then manually use that key to attempt to
>> activate Windows.
>>
>> I can confirm that the scheme works.  I've had the script running on
>> Windows Vista Ultimate inside Virtual PC 2007 and already netted two
>> product keys.  Now I've not used these keys to try to activate Windows,
>> but others have reported successfully activating their copies of Windows
>> Vista using keys found in this way.  There are, however, some drawbacks to
>> the keygen that will probably prevent it from becoming widespread.
>>
>> First, the process can take a long time and consumes a lot of system
>> resources while running.  Anyone expecting to net a key needs to spend
>> hours or maybe even days running this script.  This is not a  "click the
>> button and a key is generated instantly" kind of key generator.
>>
>> You also need some smarts to use it.  A lot of people start running the
>> script and then use the Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder (included with the
>> download package - those hackers think of everything!) to check the key
>> but a lot of people seem to be trying to activate using the default trial
>> keys.  You have to be able to tell the difference between a valid key and
>> the default key that is assigned during installation if you choose not to
>> enter a key.
>

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