A Big Slap On Microsoft’s Cheek. Windows Vista Is Officially Cracked
The paranoid activation policy enforced by Microsoft on its new Windows Vista has just seen its biggest and potentially crippling blow to date.
The hacker group Pantheon has discovered a flaw in the activation process that makes the pirated version look completely legit and which bypasses altogether the communication usually required to the Microsoft’s server.
The basic principle of the hack relies on the fact that preinstalled versions of Vista (the so called OEM versions) do not require any activation process at all. The utility released by Pantheon simply spoofs the BIOS and makes the OS believe that it is an OEM version. The great breakthrough though is the ability of applying this hack regardless of the hardware on which Vista runs.
The response from Microsoft can only be limited, as there are many legitimate copies sold under the OEM license and a move to to fix the flaw will most likely alienate and anger a lot of its customers.
With this in mind, Pantheon seems to have released the first stable crack, which is simply unfixable.
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There has been a lot of confusion, even in the official media between the two. Thank you for clearing that up. As for me names like MYTH, Paradigm or Class ring more bells
Over five years in the making, and they still cant get it quite right. I think they need to take a page out of the Linux play book ;).
Pantheon is also known as Paradox. They have come up with many cracks for “uncrackable” software. In college I used them frequently