RE: Microsoft Security - an oxymoron

["Wills, Mike N. (TC)" <MNWills@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is a bit off on the timing, unless they are talking about the release
date to the OEMs. I had acquired a hacked copy of XP before the public
release and my buddy had it for several weeks prior. Now don't get me wrong,
I had a purchased copy. Last night I did a search on Morphus and found at
least a dozen different hacking programs to disable the activation. So I
don't think Microsoft achieved their goal. They defiantly have stopped the
non-geeks from sharing, but for anyone who knows anything about the internet
and computers, Microsoft has lost the battle.

-----Original Message-----
From: neilp@dpslink.com [mailto:neilp@dpslink.com]
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 10:18 PM
To: midrange-nontech@midrange.com
Subject: Microsoft Security - an oxymoron


Hackers crack 'theft-proof' WindowsXP
LESS than a week after Microsoft launched WindowsXP with a £700 million
publicity campaign, an anti-theft feature in the software has been cracked
by hackers.
BitArts Labs, a security company in Nottingham, said yesterday that
Chinese hackers had bypassed the registration process for the operating
system.
Microsoft built a new form of copyright protection, called Product
Activation, into WindowsXP. By disabling WindowsXP if it was not
immediately registered with Microsoft, it was meant to ensure the software
could only ever be loaded on to one computer.
However, pirated copies of WindowsXP stripped of their protection
mechanism can be freely downloaded from the internet, said John Safa, of
BitArts. "The hackers had been really very clever."




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