Microsoft has a perfect chance here. The hackers are letting them into their systems. Just add a small os style trojan to sp2 where the whole xp installation (if your key shows as invalid.) logs and reports certain files and ips to microsoft. Then after 30 days it reformats your whole computer. Can we say hope you have some serious backups. Imagine all of your drives formatted at 3 am without you knowledge and a blue screen of death telling you to get a life and quit hacking! Now that would be an appropriate patch!
said by IcePirate123:Microsoft has a perfect chance here. The hackers are letting them into their systems. Just add a small os style trojan to sp2 where the whole xp installation (if your key shows as invalid.) logs and reports certain files and ips to microsoft. Then after 30 days it reformats your whole computer. Can we say hope you have some serious backups. Imagine all of your drives formatted at 3 am without you knowledge and a blue screen of death telling you to get a life and quit hacking! Now that would be an appropriate patch!
Unfortunately, Microsoft really can't do this because there is no assurance that only pirated editions of XP would be nuked. If just one legit copy of XP got nuked this way Microsoft could find itself in serious legal trouble itself. This would be especially true of that one user was a business entity. -- "[They] watch the bonfire mark the end of the Madman/They all watch the bonfire die into embers/They all watch the funeral morning glow./The Madman is dead./The dawn wind whispers:/'The Madman is dead.'"--S.C.Schumacher, "The Madman of Hamberton Swabe"
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