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Thread: Vista activation cracked by brute force

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    Re: Vista activation cracked by brute force

    Even the brute-force crack were real, copy protection that takes days to crack isn't fake. Most consumers assume their computer's security could be breached if anyone actually took the time; nor would they consider mere product activation to be particularly tough. To the average user product activation is equivalent to a serial number. They see movies and TV shows all the time where hackers unrealistically crack into protected systems in under two minutes, so when they hear it takes days to break into they're more likely to think "Gee, if it takes days just to crack the serial number those guys at Microsoft have pretty good security."

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    Re: Vista activation cracked by brute force

    This tool could be useful though if one were to modify the code to place all the good keys in one file and the not-good keys in another, then you simply comper and contrast untill you think you've found how the keys are put together mathematically, try your new formula untill you've got it to work, really it's not complicated at all, just alot of time and alot of critical thinking. I have no doubt that somehwere out there someone is already doing something like this, and it is only a matter of time untill it is done, CD keys are definately not a bullet proof method for making sure no one can activate your OS, it is only a mathematical forula i.e. a simple key could just have the numbers at there numeric value the letters at values 1-26 and have a set sum of some really high number, sure this would be the most simplistic and easy to crack cd key ever, but it's much the same concept, considering that somehow their is no way that a cd key has EVERY possible key stored on it, the harder thing to get past would be the online registration, but I would assume you'd just run the same key-gen formula over and over untill you found a key that wasn't already in use
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