At 09:23 AM 03/08/2005, Bobby Heid wrote:
Microsoft has updated the Windows Genuine Validation tool to circumvent the hack exposed last week that allowed the system to be bypassed with a snippet of JavaScript code. The Validation is now a two-step process that first generates a code and then has you copy and paste that code to complete the process.
Unfortunately, the entire process is very generous with my time. Does MS do anything to make up for the extra time they cost me? Lower software prices due to lower piracy? Of course not. Special discounts to honest resellers? Nope. A free t-shirt saying "MS wastes more of mine time than yours?" Uhuh. They won't even go after the freaking pirate shops in my town.
T
