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Re: Thai Pirates Crack Microsoft's New Windows System
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John R Levine)
Tue Nov 13 14:47:10 2001
Date: 13 Nov 2001 12:54:46 -0500
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From: "John R Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
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>Shops at Bangkok's Pantip Plaza -- a multi-story rabbit's warren of computer
>goods outlets -- said pirates had found ways of getting around the new
>operating system's security features.
They didn't have to. It's not widely publicized, but there's a
version of XP that has the old "type in a registration number"
activation rather than the intrusive new phone-home variety.
I imagine there's more than one large corporation that told Microsoft
that any operating system that insisted on exporting the configuration
data of all 300,000 of their corporate PCs through the firewall was
not something they were going to buy.
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