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Re: [News] Vista Still Regularly Phones Home to Make it Hard to Pirate

Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> Microsoft to "periodically" check Vista installs for piracy
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | How often is "periodically?" Will routine maintenance performed by
> | corporate IT technicians trigger it and perhaps cause a failure?
> | Glitches are sure to occur. Minimizing glitches will be the key to
> | success. Microsoft says it validated 300 million copies of Windows
> | since July, 2005, with a failure rate of "approximately one in
> | five."
> `----
> 
> http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2007/03/30
vista-hard-to-counterfeit
> http://tinyurl.com/yp6boy


Its probably a good idea to make a Linux router distro 
that takes unwanted accesses to micoshaft sites and sites like
Doubleclick to produce canned responses internally
so that those sites never see a hit while applications
think they got a hit.


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