http://www.metafilter.com/tags/activation Posts tagged with 'activation' at MetaFilter. Tue, 17 Jul 2001 12:04:28 -0800 Tue, 17 Jul 2001 12:04:28 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/9075/ <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/20433.html">Win XP's Product Activation as a breeze to hack.</a> Provided that RC1 still ships as is and you keep your RAM locked at a fixed number of sticks, it's simply a matter of keeping a backup of a DBL file. For all the ballyhoo, it's amazing that something this obvious slipped under the cracks. With WPA this sloppy, is this the only half-hearted facet of Windows XP? tag:metafilter.com,2001:site.9075 Tue, 17 Jul 2001 12:04:28 -0800 activation computers hacked Microsoft security technology Windows XP ed http://www.metafilter.com/8908/ <a href="http://www.licenturion.com/xp/fully-licensed-wpa.txt">Someone reverse engineered</a> the Win-XP activation mechanism. It's not as bad as many people thought. It's certainly no cause for paranoia. tag:metafilter.com,2001:site.8908 Mon, 09 Jul 2001 23:06:07 -0800 activation computers Microsoft programming reverseengineered technology Windows XP Steven Den Beste