Installed pirated versions of Windows on all employee and customer computers. We charged the customer for an os install and just used a cracker to activate it.
One of the more recent cracks would be autoKMS which would emulate having a key management server and redirecting all activation requests to itself. You could see that service running and the associated files.
Are you my grandma? Is hackerman coming to get me? You are a complete and utter moron and have zero clue what you’re talking about. Leave this to the pros, kid.
Lol what. Would like a single source saying how safe cracked windows is, or you know, actual reasoning why you think so. What kind of pro can’t afford a windows key. You’re legitimately a child.
Cracked software is like one of the number one ways to get viruses.
Requires admin access, turning off your anti virus, getting it from usually an illegal source with little to no oversight, downloading from someone who just stole software…
Yeah right every cracked windows is definitely prone to an attack. It’s so damn hard to fuck up cracking windows that I haven’t heard of it even once in more than a decade. Not talking about the possibility but that he’s insinuating that it’s common. That’s not a fact but a shit take.
Installed pirated versions of Windows on all employee and customer computers. We charged the customer for an os install and just used a cracker to activate it.
An everyday job in any 3rd world country
yeah if you replace “3rd world” with “and every”
Yeah, but are you still rocking Windows XP and Vista everywhere? That is very 3rd world country 😂
When was the type of windows declared? Also you might not want to look under the hood in most banks in north America…
It’s just my way to say, we can do worse here, (I saw Window Vista in the wild some weeks ago BTW).
Oh yeah, it is still out there. I think it was 2 years ago I saw a machine using 2k, that was wild. But then again, it worked.
manufacturing workstations have entered the chat
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And I bet it was cracked windows too.
Is there any way a customer could figure out they were running a cracked version?
Depending on how it was cracked, maybe.
One of the more recent cracks would be autoKMS which would emulate having a key management server and redirecting all activation requests to itself. You could see that service running and the associated files.
If they are using stolen MAK keys, it’s unlikely.
when their entire system inevitably gets hacked from a backdoor
Been running cracked Windows for about 23 years now. Where the h4x0r5 at?
Challenge accepted
Then you’re just dumb and probably wouldn’t know if you were infected lol
Or you just have no idea what the fuck you’re talking about. I work in tech. What do you do for a living?
Then you should probably be fired if you think having a criminal have unfettered ring 0 access to your computer is a sane thing to do.
Not like anything has bad happened because of this.
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/pirated-windows-os-cryptominer-and/
https://news.drweb.com/show/?i=14712&lng=en
https://www.engadget.com/2017-05-15-pirated-windows-china-russia-wannacry.html
You literally have no idea what you’re talking about. I’m definitely not going to tell some random person my day job.
A genuine windows key is like $20. Don’t be stupid.
Are you my grandma? Is hackerman coming to get me? You are a complete and utter moron and have zero clue what you’re talking about. Leave this to the pros, kid.
Lol what. Would like a single source saying how safe cracked windows is, or you know, actual reasoning why you think so. What kind of pro can’t afford a windows key. You’re legitimately a child.
I am a bit surprised to see this take given how many ppl here are tech savy
Cracked software is like one of the number one ways to get viruses.
Requires admin access, turning off your anti virus, getting it from usually an illegal source with little to no oversight, downloading from someone who just stole software…
That’s not a take lol, just a fact.
Yeah right every cracked windows is definitely prone to an attack. It’s so damn hard to fuck up cracking windows that I haven’t heard of it even once in more than a decade. Not talking about the possibility but that he’s insinuating that it’s common. That’s not a fact but a shit take.