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  WinXP Product Activation decoded and analysed
Time: 13:25 EST/18:25 GMT | News Source: The Register | Posted By: Robert Stein

German techies Fully Licensed GmbH claim - convincingly - to have unravelled the Windows Product Activation (WPA) system used in the latest versions of Microsoft software, including Office XP and Windows XP. The bottom line, according to the company, is that WPA is not particularly intrusive, does not invade anybody's privacy, and is a lot more forgiving of hardware changes than has been speculated.

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