Re: Info WGA sends to MS

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Alias wrote:

I wonder what would happen if you rebooted, let WGA call home and then
turned off the computer, disconnect it from the cable, turned the
computer on and connect with a dial up on another ISP and let WGA
connect again. Would it scream "NOT GENUINE!"?

Somehow I doubt they're *that* stupid. Which does bring us back to why (or
even if) the IP address is collected.

Either they're just mentioning the fact that they have to collect it on at
least a transitionary basis as part of the TCP/IP protocol, or they are
using it as aggregated data rather than for anything else because you've
just demonstrated one reason it's utterly useless for more sinister things.

Of course, it might also make a pretty fair database record key to record
the process of the WGA "transaction" while it is taking place.


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