More Cracks in Vista


Jeepers, the new Vista operating system from M$ is getting cracked faster than their older programs. The latest hack is blowing the activation process out of the water, which should end up with people buying legit copies of the program being told that they are pirates as the “key” has already been used. So far it seems that this is a one-in-a-million shot as it’s simply a brute force gambit of trying different keys until you get the right one. Someone is bound to fire up their database to keep track of bad keys though, so it’s only a matter of time before a real key gen will appear for Vista.
UPDATE: it’s cracked well over here, using the manufacturer’s royalty key – an old gambit that appears to still work.

Neighbor upstairs has just purchased a Dell laptop, with Vista Premium and the prerequisite high power hardware that’s needed to run the latest operating system and looking forward to having a crack at it myself to see what’s under the hood. It’s said that the thing has been re-written from the ground up, we’ll see about that 😉