Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Pirates beat Microsoft copy protection

Tom Saunders writes on vnunet.com:

Indian security consultant Debasis Mohanty has published a workaround that allows users of illegal copies of Windows to circumvent the software's copy protection technology.

Microsoft is currently experimenting with a technology dubbed Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) which gives users access to patches only after they have proved that they run a legitimately licensed copy of Windows.

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