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March 5, 2007
Vista keygen was really a hoax...
word went out last week that a user could crack Windows Vista using a "brute-force" keygen procedure, where you just try a sequence of key codes until you get one that the program will accept.
Turns out this was a hoax:
Initial reports on Keznews suggested that the unsophisticated attack worked. Over the weekend, however, the author of the package has stepped forward to say these people must be either mistaken or telling porkies because the program is ineffective."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," the anonymous coder said on a post to the Keznews forum.
well, it would have been fun to easily crack vista, but it's not to be...
Posted by YatPundit at March 5, 2007 12:06 PM
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