ViktorShahter@lemmy.ml to Piracy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 9 months agomassgrave.dev creator announced return of HWID activation!lemmy.mlimagemessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up1236arrow-down17
arrow-up1229arrow-down1imagemassgrave.dev creator announced return of HWID activation!lemmy.mlViktorShahter@lemmy.ml to Piracy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square24fedilink
minus-squareJCreazy@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·edit-29 months 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 #2982@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·9 months 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-squareViktorShahter@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months 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.