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Microsoft Blacklist’s 22TKD OEM-SLP Product Key for Windows 7 activation Posted: 01 Aug 2009 03:30 AM PDT Few days back i had posted about how crackers activated Windows 7 Ultimate using the cracked OEM key from Lenovo.The Windows 7 Ultimate SLP-OEM product key, i.e. 22TKD-F8XX6-YG69F-9M66D-PMJBM, will be blacklisted and blocked, probably via WGA validation process (now together with Windows Product Activation or WPA is known as Windows Activation Technologies or WAT). According to Genuine Windows blog Yesterday we were alerted to reports of a leak of a special product key issued to an OEM partner of ours. The key is for use with Windows 7 Ultimate RTM product that is meant to be pre-installed by the OEM on new PCs to be shipped later this year. As such, the use of this key requires having a PC from the manufacturer it was issued to. We’ve worked with that manufacturer so that customers who purchase genuine copies of Windows 7 from this manufacturer will experience no issues validating their copy of Windows 7. At the same time we will seek to alert customers who are using the leaked key that they are running a non-genuine copy of Windows. It’s important to note that no PCs will be sold that will use this key. Windows 7 already includes an improved ability to detect hacks, also known as activation exploits, and alert customers who are using a pirated copy.  There is a hack that is said to enable, when paired with the leaked key, a system to install and use a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate. Both the hack and the key are indications that a copy of Windows may not be genuine. The Windows Activation Technologies included in Windows 7 are designed to handle situations such as this one, and customers using these tools and methods should expect Windows to detect them. Our primary goal is to protect users from becoming unknowing victims, because customers who use pirated software are at greater risk of being exposed to malware as well as identity theft. Someone asked me recently – and I think it’s worth noting here — whether we treat all exploits equally in responding to new ones we see. Our objective isn’t to stop every “mad scientist” that’s out there from dabbling; our aim is to protect our customers from commercialized counterfeit software that impacts our customers’ confidence in knowing they got what they paid for. That will continue to be our focus as we continue to evolve our anti-piracy platforms, and respond to new threats that we see emerge in the future. The 22TKD OEM key was the working Windows 7 crack unlike the ones used to validate vista versions.The OEM-SLP product key, when paired with proper SLIC table in BIOS and OEM certificate, will activate Windows 7 offline instantly without going online to contact any activation server, just like any genuine copy of Windows pre-installed on any OEM PC.WAT may look for a hack or activation exploit to present before blacklisting the key.Even if the leaked 22TKD OEM product key is blacklisted, ultimately a unblockable OEM-SLP product keys for Windows 7 that delivers with computer machine will be leaked sooner or later. Microsoft are not taking it seriously wrt OEM SLP activation ever since the public release of Windows Vista.People had been editing SLIC tables in  BIOS chips and even came up with a more secure plan of modifying BIOS chips in Ethernet adapters to activate Vista.They are in the wrong misconception that replacing a master key for a specific vendor could realy solve the problem.If  they need to curb piracy will need some strict measures and also reduce the prices of Windows 7 so that every one would go for legit versions,why can’t Microsoft do that.I hope they do come up with nice marketing strategies. Via

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