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Jackalope

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RE: Windows 10

September 20, 2015 at 9:29 pm

(September 7, 2015 at 6:53 am)bennyboy Wrote:
(September 6, 2015 at 9:42 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Well, when you activate a product key, it's tied to a "fingerprint" of your installed hardware at Microsoft (AFAIK this has been done since XP). Apparently when activation occurs on the new install, it finds the product key based on that stored fingerprint.

So your MAC gets sent up to the mothership. Not scary at all.

This doesn't bode well for pirated copies, obviously, or people who reuse their old Windows CD on new computers.

It doesn't use the MAC, but it does send "something" to the mother ship. It has since activation started being a thing.

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