Re: WGA Hacked?! Get a Fair and Balance Perspective!


Compulsory WGA??? What! Who are these people? For what purpose would this be
for? Speed up downloads? Wouldn't it take download time + get an
authenicated check? Rather than just download time?

Who and what would WGA stop from downloading\updating anyway? My windows is
already WGA'd, I thought this happened when MS activated it.

-Winux P

"Mike Brannigan [MSFT]" <mikebran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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: "kurttrail" <dontemailme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
: news:%23kqipDXYFHA.3096@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
: > Mike Brannigan [MSFT] wrote:
: >> Kurt,
: >>
: >> This is not a hack - since at this time you can still access all WGA
: >> protected content by choosing to not validate.
: >
: > No?! Really?! LOL!
: >
: > "Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) or Validation has kinda been hacked,
but
: > the hack only works at the Microsoft Download Center, but won't help ya'
: > at Windows Update, or in downloading the WGA free offers." - from the
: > KurtBlog link I originally gave.
: >
: >> It will then take you
: >> to the download directly.
: >> This will not remain the case - soon you will have to validate to
: >> access the content.
: >
: > Unless you get the url to the file! But You guys really got to stop the
: > totally false claim that WGA speeds up downloading! I was testing it
: > today, and it is noticibly slower to download a file validating, than it
: > is not validating.
: >
: > But only goes to prove that your company finds it easier to distort
: > reality than tell the truth!
:
: As regards the static full path URLs you see to day and use to get around
: the WGA process. Getting those URLs will not be a viable option once we go
: compulsory WGA.
: I was not aware we make any claims that WGA increases download speed - do
: you have a link to one of our pages where we explicitly state this ?
: --
:
: Regards,
:
: Mike
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: "kurttrail" <dontemailme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
: news:%23kqipDXYFHA.3096@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
: > Mike Brannigan [MSFT] wrote:
: >> Kurt,
: >>
: >> This is not a hack - since at this time you can still access all WGA
: >> protected content by choosing to not validate.
: >
: > No?! Really?! LOL!
: >
: > "Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) or Validation has kinda been hacked,
but
: > the hack only works at the Microsoft Download Center, but won't help ya'
: > at Windows Update, or in downloading the WGA free offers." - from the
: > KurtBlog link I originally gave.
: >
: >> It will then take you
: >> to the download directly.
: >> This will not remain the case - soon you will have to validate to
: >> access the content.
: >
: > Unless you get the url to the file! But You guys really got to stop the
: > totally false claim that WGA speeds up downloading! I was testing it
: > today, and it is noticibly slower to download a file validating, than it
: > is not validating.
: >
: > But only goes to prove that your company finds it easier to distort
: > reality than tell the truth!
: >
: > --
: > Peace!
: > Kurt
: > Self-anointed Moderator
: > microscum.pubic.windowsexp.gonorrhea
: > http://microscum.com/mscommunity
: > "Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
: > "Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei"
: >
:
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