Vista Brute Force Keygen Released
 

The method of attack has got to be quite troubling for MS on many grounds. The crack is a glorified guesser, and with the speed of modern PCs and the number of outstanding keys, the 25-digit serials are within range. The biggest problem for MS? If this gets widespread, and I hope it will, people will start activating legit keys that are owned by other people

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37941

Bill Gates should know better, being a college dropout. Given the resource, there are many smart youngsters out there not bound by corporate "thinking", i.e. "street smart" can and will in this case "break you bank".

Really bad would be if there is a hacked pirate Vista that has the entire copy protection killed off.

yay for the pirates having easier installs than the legit users

people on IRC said that the keygen was fake. (cant confirm)

edit: http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/03/w...keygen-a-hoax/

but then again, ZD net claims to have 2 valid keys from the keygen?

maybe Mickeysoft released a fake version to mask discredit the real one? (but that'd be very cloak and dagger :P)

http://it.slashdot.org/it/07/03/03/1339209.shtml

no need for Keygen.

How would that work exactly then? Easier than the crap legit customers have to go through?

you install any version of Vista, you run the "OEM crack" which adds a boot loader before Vista , making it think it is installed on an OEM system, you enter a valid OEM key, and your copy will be valid, not time limited, pre-activated.

looks like something handy for people who do a lot of reinstalls with legit versions too =O

only if your legit key is an OEM one, i guess.

wont worth with other stuff.