Publishing Microsoft License Keys - a Smart Idea!
David Berlind of ZDNet wrote " Posting your Microsoft license keys to Web not the brightest thing to do " and it may sound reasonable until you look at this from a different angle. Now I am not playing the cynic here. Consider what happens to published keys? Correct, other people find them and use them to activate their windows. What happens next is that Microsoft takes notice and invalidates the keys, denying the PC of further security updates (unless it's Vista where it denies it of oxygen too). Most PC users (and I say it from experience) will not necessarily understand what hit them and how to resolve it. The ones that will try will be blamed by MS for distributing their keys. So why is it a such a smart idea? Clearly it's not in the best interest of Joe Average. Well, for Joe Cracker, the well known bot-net builder, this is a lottery ticket. The last thing Joe Cracker wants is for his zombie army to get security patches from Microsoft and since Microsoft does no...