lightshow
Joined: 21 Jul 2007
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Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2007 6:37 pm Post subject: |
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| how does Microsoft know that you uninstalled the OS? |
Unique hardware ID. Connect to theinternet, M$ has a database of serials with hardware IDs.
Granted, if you are always offline all you have to do is have a serial that works with M$ algroithm for the install. But that algroithm is based on a unique hardware ID of the system it is being installed on (which wasn:t the case in XP)
Once you plug into the internet, and M$ sees a serial that has two registered hardware IDs....bam you just became a pirate. |
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