@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 2 years agomassgrave.dev creator announced return of HWID activation!lemmy.mlimagemessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up1230
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish13•edit-22 years agoI’ve always wondered about this, doesn’t Microsoft know when people use this? Or is it just an anonymous number among legit ones and Microsoft can’t tell a difference?
minus-squaremeseek #2982linkfedilinkEnglish15•2 years agoMS servers cannot tell the difference between where the HWID came from. If it’s there, MS treats it as legitimate. As if they issued it themselves.
minus-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoThey probably can but only after manual analysis.
I’ve always wondered about this, doesn’t Microsoft know when people use this? Or is it just an anonymous number among legit ones and Microsoft can’t tell a difference?
MS servers cannot tell the difference between where the HWID came from. If it’s there, MS treats it as legitimate. As if they issued it themselves.
They probably can but only after manual analysis.