09 December 2006
Possible Crack for Vista Enterprise
A cracking technique has been released for Windows Vista Enterprise that in theory should work. No one has yet confirmed that it does work.
The idea is to take advantage of the way Volume Activation works. One option for businesses to have a server that authenticates the keys using Key Management Service. This also allows people who want to pirate the OS to create a virtual server that will authenticate the software. This server should probably be reactivated every 180 days, but in theory will work.
Battling the pirated software industry is a difficult battle. There's a lot of money to be made with pirated copies of software, especially Windows and these groups will stop at nothing to find a way to pirate the software. This of course is a problem for software producers, who are losing money, usually made up for with higher prices of the software, which can cause more people to consider pirated copies. The problem is to eliminate piracy, software would have to be so complexly authenticated that most users would be put off. Rather than doing this, the goal is to find some balance between, accepting that there will be some pirated copies, but making the pirated copies difficult enough to maintain that the majority of people will just buy the software.
Microsoft seems to have currently reached this stage in Vista. The average computer user is not going to want to deal with the virtual server or recreating it every 180 days and will find it better to just buy Vista. The question is if Microsoft is satisfied with this or if they can make that impossible without making it too much work for IT departments in companies running Vista Enterprise.
The idea is to take advantage of the way Volume Activation works. One option for businesses to have a server that authenticates the keys using Key Management Service. This also allows people who want to pirate the OS to create a virtual server that will authenticate the software. This server should probably be reactivated every 180 days, but in theory will work.
Battling the pirated software industry is a difficult battle. There's a lot of money to be made with pirated copies of software, especially Windows and these groups will stop at nothing to find a way to pirate the software. This of course is a problem for software producers, who are losing money, usually made up for with higher prices of the software, which can cause more people to consider pirated copies. The problem is to eliminate piracy, software would have to be so complexly authenticated that most users would be put off. Rather than doing this, the goal is to find some balance between, accepting that there will be some pirated copies, but making the pirated copies difficult enough to maintain that the majority of people will just buy the software.
Microsoft seems to have currently reached this stage in Vista. The average computer user is not going to want to deal with the virtual server or recreating it every 180 days and will find it better to just buy Vista. The question is if Microsoft is satisfied with this or if they can make that impossible without making it too much work for IT departments in companies running Vista Enterprise.
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