Cracked Windows anti-crack cracked claim
Found on The Inquirer on Wednesday, 27 July 2005
Microsoft's bid to refuse access to updated versions of Windows has been foiled by hackers.
The Vole had demanded that those who wanted Windows updates, other than security improvements, had to download an Active X program that sniffed their operating system to see if their OS had been pirated.
It took about 24 hours for hackers to come up with a solution involving IE script, the hackers claim.
That was to be expected. The folks over at Boing Boing have a more detailed article; together with the solution. It indeed is nothing more than a simple javascript line which you paste into your address bar. If that is an example for MS's new security improvements, then I'm afraid of Longhorn (Vista, sir) Vista.