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What was the most illegal thing your workplace has done? (lemmy.world)

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[-] LemmyFeed@lemmy.world 106 points 1 year ago

Installed pirated versions of Windows on all employee and customer computers. We charged the customer for an os install and just used a cracker to activate it.

[-] RomanRoy@lemmy.world 70 points 1 year ago

An everyday job in any 3rd world country

[-] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 19 points 1 year ago

yeah if you replace "3rd world" with "and every"

[-] kratoz29@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but are you still rocking Windows XP and Vista everywhere? That is very 3rd world country 😂

[-] DoomsdaySprocket@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

manufacturing workstations have entered the chat

[-] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When was the type of windows declared? Also you might not want to look under the hood in most banks in north America.....

[-] kratoz29@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It's just my way to say, we can do worse here, (I saw Window Vista in the wild some weeks ago BTW).

[-] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah, it is still out there. I think it was 2 years ago I saw a machine using 2k, that was wild. But then again, it worked.

[-] ext23@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Is there any way a customer could figure out they were running a cracked version?

[-] brygphilomena@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Depending on how it was cracked, maybe.

One of the more recent cracks would be autoKMS which would emulate having a key management server and redirecting all activation requests to itself. You could see that service running and the associated files.

If they are using stolen MAK keys, it's unlikely.

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