You can't secure something that you cannot have your hands on, it's like giving someone a locked suitcase for them to take home. How strong the lock maybe, the suitcase will always be opened.

About this new security thing, it's already been cracked

http://www.extended64.com/blogs/rafael/

yeah right, and how is microsoft going to change that sysinfo so that no one will be able to hack? let's take a look at their track record. it sucks. of course that's because they're the most popular OS...it would be the same for Linux or Mac if they were as common. every fix that comes out, the hackers are always one step ahead. read about the hacker wars microsoft hosted? the hackers broke through. i think the more 3rd party security software you use, the better your chances of foiling the hackers are.

My fabourite part of the announcement was how MS would agreed to give everyone with a stolen copy of XP a free legitimate copy.. (how nice of them)

<small print> to recieve your free copy, must fill out a copyright theft form, and rat out whoever gave this to you</small print>

LOL.

Hi i see almost everyone here is concerned for all the wrong reasons - you seem to care more about microsoft implementing another security measure and how to get rid of it than being glad that for those of us that have actually bought the software can feel safe that its money well spent and not being left with a feeling of being ripped off.

Alright fine for those of you that feel microsoft are this big "dictator" like corporation thats just out to monopolize the economy and control the user - Thats perfect business strategy as far as im concerned, to be the one and only, its business strategy 101. But for all the rigt reasons i am glad Micorsoft are headed in the right direction so next time i go to buy a Microsoft product for a horendous price i can feel assured that my hard earned money was invested wisely and some 12 year old script kiddy hasnt got it 25 minutes after its release.

P.S. About the "we're to poor" story - get a job

put javascript:void(window.g_sDisableWGACheck='all') in the addy bar

hit enter

no more validation...

gotta love slashdot haha. But yea apparently they broke past the validation within 24...haha

Actually, it has already been broken. do a search on google, or look at slashdot today, they have an article on it, even going into how to do it. Its pretty easy. As for me, I still use good ol Win2k, and I intend to for the future. I am getting sick of MS BS. when I am finally forced to upgrade, i will just switch to Linux + Wine, or get a mac desktop and run Virtual PC or something.

there is no software which is not crackable.... it only takes dedicated team or a person for the job to hack and crack a software... after all its just 0 and 1 so dont worry about the updates.. like casanova said.. he found a way out through the internet... ...

I wont really rely on MS updated. Because, whenever updates are released, there are always new ones discovered. Really, this MS problem wont have a permanent solution. So, beside relying on MS, i really like to give my hope to other protections such as Norton A.V and ZoneAlarm firewall. These are the best solutions for me so far. Therefore, i knew i am protected all the time.

The only problem with this crack is it was a retarded oversight, they'll have a fix shortly I assume (I mean...just change how the JScript works...) Hell a temp fix would be just to mess with the variable name... so yea I assume M$ will have this "fixed" shortly, although I hope they are dumb and don't haha

about that, i used a burned copy of windows XP and it works fine, but anyways i download updates about once a year i think the updates are useless