Code breaks Vista's antipiracy system

It surely hasn't taken long for hackers to start chopping away at Microsoft's latest operating system, Vista. The latest vulnerability lies within the OS antipiracy technology. In order to be used, Vista has to be 'activated' by a licensed user/enterprise, and to make things easier for IT departments, Microsoft offers up a special tool called the Key Management Service (KMS). The problem is that hackers have developed software that mimics KMS and activates the system illegally.

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