I know many of you are aware of reports of hacks that attempt to exploit our OEM BIOS based activation. We're aware of this type of hack and I wanted to take a minute to describe how these work and how we plan to respond.
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This is a respond to Paradox, the application cracking group, releasing a BIOS Emulation Toolkit For Windows Vista x86 that bypasses the product activation requirement by emulating 'Royalty OEMs' licensed hardware.
While Alex talks about the BIOS hacks, he ends the blog with a not so strong signal.
Our goal isn't to stop every "mad scientist" that's on a mission to hack Windows. Our first goal is to disrupt the business model of organized counterfeiters and protect users from becoming unknowing victims. This means focusing on responding to hacks that are scalable and can easily be commercialized, thereby making victims out of well-intentioned customers.Sounds like they are more worried about China and private PC shops that sell computers with stolen OSs then the determined hackers that will do anything just to beat the system (and perhaps save a few bucks as well).
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