Vista Activation Cracked? NOT !

Slashdot ^ | 03/03/07

[FunkyZero]

An anonymous reader writes "The author of the Windows Vista keygen that was reported yesterday has admitted that the program does not actually work. Here is the initial announcement of the original release of the keygen, and here is the followup post in which the same author acknowledges that the program is fake. Apparently, the keygen program does legitimately attack Windows Vista keys via brute force, but the chances of success are too low for this to be a practical method. Quote from the author: 'Everyone who said they got a key is probably lying or mistaken!'"

[FunkyZero]

There are links to the Forum where this "crack" originated. The whole thing is halarious. My main observtions: How quickly the media ran with and headlined this and how eager the public was to accept it as fact. NONE of them checked the validity of this before headlining it. This is the same method used to propogate the global warming scam.

[FunkyZero]

My mistake, here is the source URL, I accidentally linked to a previous Freep post. Here is the correct URL for the slashdot entry:
http://it.slashdot.org/it/07/03/03/1339209.shtml

My apologies for the mistake.

[theFIRMbss]

>how eager the public was to accept it as fact

Just the loser crowd
emotionally caught up
in hating Bill Gates.

They're now pretending
that Microsoft invented
activation keys.

Never mind many
minicomputers used it.
Also never mind

great PC software
has used it for years. One time
the shuttle [!] called down

to Wolfram Research.
A PC crashed in orbit
and they needed to

reactivate their
copy of Mathematica.
Microsoft's okay.

[festus]

Don't you just enter 666 when prompted ?

[Barrett 50BMG]

you use Vista as a Demo without an activation key the use the rearm dailytech website and kedz has info on how to do this, there are other ways to do it better that I will not talk about here.