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wolfman

marleyboy wrote:

My original post I stand by and like you is also backed up by several others, that its already been cracked, and that is its flaw. or its hole, or its weakness, or its opening, or its gap in security.

So what exactly is your point?

I'm not sure what your point is though.

Nothing has effectively been "breached" as you have to apply the crack yourself on your own system. Circumvented would be the better word, and from what I've read it's something that Microsoft can put a stop to if they wish as it's based on old beta code.

And I can't see how someone activating Vista via a crack would pose a security risk. It obviously shows a flaw in the activation process, but people being able to illegally activate Vista doesn't mean it's been breached. And this won't be something that will bother Microsoft too much. It's been happening for over a decade, and not to just them. Time is better spent on the product itself than perfecting the activation process, which is an annoyance to start with.

I could download and run an app on my Linux install to change the environment or deactivate something. This doesn't make it any less secure, as I'm the one that initiated it.

sco0ter

marleyboy wrote:

My original post I stand by and like you is also backed up by several others, that its already been cracked, and that is its flaw. or its hole, or its weakness, or its opening, or its gap in security.

So what exactly is your point?

Bypassing software with a hack that has to have user account security turned off first and then run in administrator mode as well as replacing files is hardly a weakness. The point is that NO SYSTEM in the world is secure if the end user wants to run malicious software to circumvent something... A secure operating system is secure from the outside not the inside... If no one can get in to it in the first place then they cant do any harm... what you are talking about is an "Inside Job" which there is NO protection against...

If you went into your home and disabled all alarms and handed a passer by your TV.. would that mean your house was less secure because you could gain entry and give stuff away??? Its not as if this validation hack means others can gain entry into the OS and therefore does not make it less secure unless the people putting out the patches and RC2 files to be used have implanted a nice little trojan and keylogger... Then thats your own fault for trusting pirates...