mr_skrilla Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 Indian cracks Microsoft's anti-piracy programAlok Sharma | June 21, 2005 14:53 IST An Indian researcher has breached the much-touted "impenetrable" Windows Genuine Advantage of Microsoft. Bangalore-based Debasis Mohanty has cracked WGA through an "easy-to-exploit" weakness in the software for generating illegal copies of the Windows XP programme. Microsoft confirmed the claims of Mohanty, but sought to downplay it saying, "It represents very little threat." A company spokesperson said they did expect counterfeiters to try a number of different methods to circumvent safeguards provided by WGA. WGA is an anti-piracy programme that keeps a tab on consumers whether they are running legitimately licensed copies of Windows XP. Mohanty has posted a detailed proof-of-concept programme on the high-profile security mailing list of the software giant, showing how the WGA validation check can be tricked to generate key codes for use on illegal copies of the software. Using a secondary Microsoft validation tool called 'genuinecheck.Exe', Mohanty claims to have made it possible for people to trick the safeguard mechanism and download and run the supposedly restricted software from Microsoft's download centre, he said. http://inhome.rediff.com/money/2005/jun/21ms.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Lyle Global Moderator Posted June 23, 2005 Global Moderator Share Posted June 23, 2005 ROFL!!! ouch... another reason why microsoft should just give up on this whole legit crap... it will never be prevented Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randolph Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 Old news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makeshift Hammer Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 Old news. 586105640[/snapback] No, very old news :D :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpha2004 Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 (edited) wtf? I bypassed this months ago myself muwahahaha yoink Edited June 23, 2005 by EmuZombie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrisCr0ss Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 ya this is old.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Lyle Global Moderator Posted June 23, 2005 Global Moderator Share Posted June 23, 2005 (edited) wtf? I bypassed this months ago myself muwahahahayoink 586105651[/snapback] you should remove that. you arn't allowed to hint towards warez related material... this (im pretty sure) falls into that warez category. BTW, i just used my LEGIT windows XP... to validate myself... so glad you guys are proud you bypassed this.. be glad you stole something :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkZeus Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 Sorry, I just had to... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkZeus Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 Like they don't have enough money as it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqube Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 This doesn't surprise me at all. My only question is what moron called it "impenetrable"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fAlCoNNiAn Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpha2004 Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 you should remove that. you arn't allowed to hint towards warez related material... this (im pretty sure) falls into that warez category.BTW, i just used my LEGIT windows XP... to validate myself... so glad you guys are proud you bypassed this.. be glad you stole something :) 586105705[/snapback] I didnt use any warez tool...I used M$'s validation key code generator. And I have a valid copy of windows sitting next to me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emel Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 This was done a long time ago.. There was documentation release fo this and it was in neowin front page.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zerolimit Posted July 27, 2005 Share Posted July 27, 2005 when was it on neowin's front page? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangbang023 Veteran Posted July 27, 2005 Veteran Share Posted July 27, 2005 People need to grow up thread closed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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