Comments on: Windows Vista brute-force attack appears to be a hoax!

By: DUMBFUKKAS

DUMBFUKKAS — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 16:58:35 +0000

@ ne1 that read the first article and believed it could be cracked, your all just so f&$kin dumb its unbelieveable you fell for it. Anyone can see fron the vid he was just using a Vista Theme on XP and all you dumbfukkas out there believed it. Even this site had to be first to be there and tell you all about it… Jeez next time f&#kin wait till you know for sure and dont believe all you read especially on this site, Those that wrire reviews etc are so f&#kin quick they dont even have time to study the facts, and most of the time their opinion sucks anyway. DUMB FUKKAS

By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 13:50:35 +0000

@psrst143: You idiot! Look at the fucking movie, he’s not even using Vista. Look at the start orb, it’s not a full circle, look at the windows. That’s just a theme for XP. That video is a hoax, and so is the brute forcing.

By: crimson

crimson — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 13:35:53 +0000

de32: you didn´t understand me .. how come that i had 5 customers that could not validate there key if this is a _hoax_ …
and even microsoft austria CONFIRMED that on the phone so i expect this to be true ..

By: psrst143

psrst143 — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 11:56:09 +0000

not a spam its REAL!!!!!!

http://keznews.com/2443_Video_Windows_Vista_Keygen_confirmation_

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 10:11:25 +0000

I don’t think it’s a hoax, it will work given enough time. It just generates random characters until a key is accepted without using any clever algorithms. If someone could decode Microsoft’s key structure then it would be possible to make a keygen of the type we’ve all seen before for other apps.

I was reading last night that this was a hoax on Digg, where I think the ‘hoax!’ cry originated from. But that started out just because some guy had ran it for 8 hours with no results. Hell, the original post said this could take DAYS…

It’s true that brute forcing a 128-bit encrytion key is nigh on impossible to do in a reasonable amount of time, but in this case there are millions/billions of correct keys you could generate rather than just one. Each activation code will have it’s specific pattern and checksum digits, it shouldn’t take too long to nail one of those.

I’m curious to see how this will work out and whether Microsoft will keep a database of all released keys and blacklist any genuine ones that happen to be ’stolen’ by a brute force attack.

By: Spartacus

Spartacus — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 10:01:27 +0000

@lol, ofcourse I do but why should I give it to you

By: ab

ab — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 09:17:03 +0000

22.1

whatever you cannae laugh about you must error yourself

By: ab

ab — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 08:36:43 +0000

omg spam

http://www.google.com.au/search?num=50&hl=en&newwindow=1&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=Xrl&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=%22microsoft+has%22+employees&spell=1

(not that im good at query or nuffin but)

so giveen em major kudos for crackin it

and stuff

and time

what was that tune the fella played in shawshank

By: Anon

Anon — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 07:08:35 +0000

well its technically is possible…. just not logical, due to how many combinations there is. Its like trying to brute force hack a 128bit lock…. so many combinations.

There is simple ways to fix it anyways, add “retry” timers in between each activation attempt. So it turns the process of brute force from long into LONGER….

If you have like 5 computers in ya house, there is a simple trick to activate them all using 1 “real” copy of Vista. Which doesn’t require ANY Keygens or hacks or what not.

This is how:
1. Install Vista on 1st computer with that key
2. Activate vista on that 1st computer
3. Install vista on 2nd computer with the same key in step 1.
4. Attempt to activate Vista, it will say “this copy in use”, choose to activate it alternate ways, and choose Phone activation.
5. Call up Microsoft, and tell them “i have recently upgraded my computer due to my old hardware not good enough to run vista, however i cannot activate it again”
6. They give you a new activation number to type in.
7. Repeat this phone microsoft for how many computers you have.

Can also do it to ya friends if ya want. lol. Can share 1 copy with all ya friends. and their friends, and their friends again….. (of course dont make a whole network of people using your key >.> microsoft will just blacklist it >.. people dont change computers 150 times)

By: Basem

Basem — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 06:33:39 +0000

Guys, I just cant believe how ppl wont spend the $100 for Vista and bother with keygens and cracks and all that BS!

you want to get Vista for free, then steal it or you must wait until A REAL REAL crack is found; otherwise, go buy it!!!!!!

By: de32

de32 — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 05:52:20 +0000

@crimson.

Its because they’re taking this issue very seriously.

By: crimson

crimson — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 05:27:06 +0000

wtf so back to topic, yesterday at work i had 5 (!) people who bought a laptop with windows vista (omfg) and they could not activate there key so we called up microsoft austria and they told us that because of the brute force method and they exchange the keys for the people !

so wtf ? hoax ?

By: Mr. X

Mr. X — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 02:11:59 +0000

Vienna ?

By: Dakins

Dakins — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 02:09:43 +0000

>>3
>>5
>>6

Same fag.

By: John Shu

John Shu — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 01:46:49 +0000

Its not a Hoax, I received 2 keys from it, both of which I have activated my copy of Vista Ultimate with.

Although it is a terrible Brute Force attack with no database to even start with.. it works just not in any level of normality.