Microsoft Genuine Advantage cracked

Ouch another black eye for MS...

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/22/2221254&from=rss

-Im

S
Thu Jun 23 06:34:14 CDT 2005

Do I have a problem? Absolutely not.

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Svyatoslav Pidgorny, MS MVP - Security, MCSE
-= F1 is the key =-

"Imhotep" <NoSpam@NoThanks.com> wrote in message
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> Ouch another black eye for MS...
>
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/22/2221254&from=rss
>
> -Im

Imhotep
Thu Jun 23 14:24:08 CDT 2005

S. Pidgorny wrote:

> Do I have a problem? Absolutely not.
>

Do you waste people time by posting stupid comments. Absolutely.

S
Fri Jun 24 19:16:18 CDT 2005

I don't care about wasting your time, to be quite frank - sure it costs $0
an hour. But I think I do need to explain just for you: as a Windows user,
there's nothing in the MGA weakness that would be any threat to my systems'
security. From a systems engineer standpoint, any system that performs
checks to make files available is inherently flawed in a way that the files
can be obtained in another way. Hope the explanation is not beyond the
reaches of your otherwise great mind.

--
Svyatoslav Pidgorny, MS MVP - Security, MCSE
-= F1 is the key =-

"Imhotep" <NoSpam@NoThanks.com> wrote in message
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> S. Pidgorny wrote:
>
> > Do I have a problem? Absolutely not.
> >
>
> Do you waste people time by posting stupid comments. Absolutely.

Imhotep
Mon Jun 27 15:53:20 CDT 2005

S. Pidgorny wrote:

> I don't care about wasting your time, to be quite frank - sure it costs $0
> an hour. But I think I do need to explain just for you: as a Windows user,
> there's nothing in the MGA weakness that would be any threat to my
> systems' security. From a systems engineer standpoint, any system that
> performs checks to make files available is inherently flawed in a way that
> the files can be obtained in another way. Hope the explanation is not
> beyond the reaches of your otherwise great mind.
>

Wow! I guess you really had to think hard for your feeble mind to correctly
spell those big words. Practice, practice! Now let me tell you some things,
I will use short easy to understand words so as not to confuse you...

The Microsoft Genuine Advantage was cracked. This is a security topic. This
is a security group. Hence the post...

Get it now, or are their too many syllables for you?

-Im

S
Wed Jun 29 04:41:36 CDT 2005

If is was cracked there will be a way to get the files without having a
legitimate client first I suppose? If that is not a cse and you still cannot
get the files from your BSD box, then pardon me.

And I wasn't objecting to your post - just added a user perspective, hence
my post.

--
Svyatoslav Pidgorny, MS MVP - Security, MCSE
-= F1 is the key =-

"Imhotep" <NoSpam@NoThanks.com> wrote in message
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> The Microsoft Genuine Advantage was cracked. This is a security topic.
This
> is a security group. Hence the post...