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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008Have you ever had one of those moments in IT, when you discover a tool, and a light bulb goes on inside your head, and you say to yourself “I’ve needed this for ages! This really fixes issue X”?
I’ve had that a few times (maybe I need to get out more?), and one of those [...]
Vista OEM offline activation
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008So there’s been a lot of talk about OEM BIOS hacks to get around Vista activation. Microsoft responded to this on the Windows Genuine Advantage Blog back in April last year.
Now it appears that there’s a much easier work around, leveraging what seems to be a design choice in activation for some of the large [...]
Windows 2008 Hacked?
Monday, February 11th, 2008Dean, has put up a post explaining an architectural defect in the way Windows Server 2008 handles the Accessibility Options prior to login.
As Microsoft’s 3rd Law of security states, if you have physical access, then it’s not your box anymore. And this is just another good reason why physical security is one layer in your [...]