Re: Info WGA sends to MS
- From: "Jeff" <jeffwhat44@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 21:31:48 -0400
PID=Product id SID=Security ID
"Alias" <aka@[notme]maskedandanonymous.org> wrote in message
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Leythos wrote:
In article <rsk982ds6d2ppd4dgtv2k0a3rab1mle3r1@xxxxxxx>,
aegis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 20:43:07 +0200, Alias
<aka@[notme]maskedandanonymous.org> wrote:
The only information collected in the validation process is:That's actually a lot of information. Why does it need information
* Windows product key
* PC manufacturer
* Operating System version
* PID/SID
* BIOS information (make, version, date)
* BIOS MD5 Checksum
* User locale (language setting for displaying Windows)
* System locale (language version of the operating system)
* Office product key (if validating Office)
* Hard drive serial number
about my hardware to determine if my copy of Windows is genuine or
not? What does that have to do with it?
If you read their site where the explain how WGA works, you would know
that they save this information so that they can tell if your key is
being installed on a bunch of computers in order to invalidate them. So,
if you are the first to validate a key against the hardware specifics, it
would be used to invalidate the same key against some unknown number of
other configurations. At least that's my take on what they describe. So,
it means that your key won't be stolen and used by pirates and then cause
your own key to be invalidated on your hardware.
This happened in the MS Universal products a year ago or so, they found
that a group of MSDN keys were being used all over the place and they
invalidated them without notifying the real key owners - but they re-
issued new keys when asked....
Again, they should go after the people who steal the keys not force the
customer to play cops and robbers in their game with the crackers. And
what's to say that replacing a failed hard drive or flashing the BIOS
wouldn't trigger a message every time you reboot that you have a
counterfeit copy of XP? Has anyone tried that yet?
Also, what is PID/SID?
Alias
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