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[–] 242 points 10 months ago (17 children)

out of all the censored things, they didn't think to censor a product key before declassifying it. I wish I could say I was surprised.

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  • [–] 26 points 10 months ago (9 children)

    I've only seen videos of it, but apparently you can copy paste the redacted parts of the pdfs. They legit left all of the text data on a different layer.

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  • [–] 46 points 10 months ago* (6 children)

    I wish the people who found that would’ve kept their mouths shut until 100% is released

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  • [–] 43 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Unfortunately with an error so egregious, the amount of people who found that near instantly was probably in the thousands

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  • [–] 39 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Exactly. I dabble in competitive assessment and the amount of times weve got competitors data because they didnt flatten a file is astounding. The one we try every time with moderate success is checking every picture to see if you can "uncrop" it. So many times the rest of the picture is actually in the file and the crop is just for display purposes. Most of the time the rest of the photo is useless, but ill never forget the time we got the whole process map for their upcoming production schedule

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  • [–] 21 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    It's a product key for an old no longer supported* product.

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  • [–] 39 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    yea but it's still a valid key! the opsec part of me is dying atm.

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  • [–] 177 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

    CWMY2-V4YPB-TJ2DK-XTMBG-V3R32

    CWMY2-V4YPB-TJ2DK-XTMBG-V3R32
    
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  • [–] 140 points 10 months ago (26 children)

    you can activate any windows or office by using vlmcsd (https://github.com/Wind4/vlmcsd). you can selfhost it, choose any windows version like 11 pro or enterprise or office product like office 24 enterprise. activate it using your kms server and you can enter the matching licence key every so often to activate it. doesn't cost a cent except hosting on 512mb/1cpu. i think there are public kms servers with vlmcsd too. obviously JUST FOR TESTING PURPOSES ;)

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  • [–] 44 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Simpler to just use massgrave, no?

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  • [–] 31 points 10 months ago (9 children)

    Ah yes key management server server

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  • [–] 29 points 10 months ago (8 children)

    haha yes sorry! my wireless wlan had some issues with my personal pc when i was etablishing a secure ssh connection. could also be an error with my dns system or with the http protocol.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    so this is what an aneurism feels like

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  • [–] 28 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    kms server? massgrave? is this a dark joke i am not in on

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  • [–] 30 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Kms is key management services.

    Why massgrave is called that, I have no idea.

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    i thought kms was kill my self

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  • [–] 22 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I figured that's what you thought. To be fair, using Microsoft also makes me want to kms. Luckily I don't have to.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    KMS is microsoft's method of product activation mostly for organizations, they can run an activation server inside an intranet for instance. Also widely used for pirating windows since it's easy to run one of those kms emulators

    https://massgrave.dev/ is a fairly recent development, they have a tool called MAS that can activate windows/office/etc using many methods including KMS

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago* (2 children)
  • [–] 123 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (24 children)

    He used the Home version?

    He owned his own island, he could at least go for Professional!

    I remember Windows 7's editions being a complete mess, but a come on!

    Either ask your IT guy or your friend Billy G, both will laugh at you for picking a Home version when you have the money to go pro.

    What a fucking loser.

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  • [–] 52 points 10 months ago (8 children)

    Funny enough I got 7 ultimate for free by having a Microsoft themed Tupperware party and using their party invite platform. They sent me a box with free copy and ms colored streamers and windows 7 napkins. I still have the napkins new and sealed. Had to take like 4 pictures with my friends around a laptop I think. Not a bad trade for the best version of 7. I don’t think they’d ever get people to do the same for the newer OS’s. 7 was one of the good ones

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  • [–] 38 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I don’t think they’d ever get people to do the same for the newer OS’s

    Just sayin, if you host a Linux install party you can get a copy of most Linux distributions for free. You can also get it for free if you don't host a Linux install party, but that's minor details.

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  • [–] 25 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    7 was the first and last version of Windows that I didn't immediately despise.

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  • [–] 26 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    For me I think I enjoyed 98, XP, 7 it was nearly Star Trek rules every other edition was ok. 7 was the culmination of the best of. But absolute shit ever since. Honestly wish I could just go back to 7 for anything that requires windows( I try to stay away from it whenever possible)

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago*

    I got a copy of Vista Ultimate from a friend who worked for Microsoft. Upgraded that baby to 7 Ultimate the instant I could and rode that product code for over a decade, until last year when I installed Linux on everything.

    Actually, I think I might still be using that product code on my Windows VM. Hmm.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    The number of other people laughing at actually paying for Windows is not zero.

    Aside, did you type "looser" ironically? 😅😶

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    Eh, back in the Windows 7 days paying for Windows wasn't that bad of a deal, but starting with Windows 10 it felt as if you were paying to get ads.

    As for your last part, I am not a native english speaker, and my phone has two dictionaries, sometimes it picks the Swedish dictionary, sometimes it picks the English.

    I have been in situations where the dictionary marks a word as being wrong and offers a suggestion, when I then pick the suggestion, that word is also marked as being wrong, and the original word is offered as a solution.

    This can be rather annoying, and means that sometimes stuff like this slips through.

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    That product key is forever in the public domain now.

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  • [–] 61 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    i mean ofc he's bffs with Bill Gates

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  • [–] 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    In 2019, Gates characterized his relationship with Epstein as a 'huge mistake'. Make of that what you will.

    But this post doesn't really address that. It suggests Epstein bought Windows XP once, which … is fine … I guess? (Doesn't let him off the hook for the criminal empire he ran though)

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  • [–] 18 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    In 2019, Gates characterized his relationship with Epstein as a ‘huge mistake’.

    Probably because it was the final straw for his wife Melinda, and Gates wasn't happy how much she would take in the divorce. Considering he was a serial philanderer and often used his position at Microsoft as a way to meet women (including Melinda!), it's not like he respected that marriage or his wife very much, so it can't be that he's sad about losing her or something, so my bet is on sad he was going to lose a lot of wealth over his Epstein connections.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    Oh, I too doubt the regret is for anything beyond "I got caught and this makes me look bad shash will directly cost me money slash power slash influence". I only made the reference to say that Gates' ties to Epstein were known well before 2026.

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  • [–] 59 points 10 months ago (13 children)

    He might rape children but at least he doesn’t pirate software.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    You can excuse child rape? 🤨

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  • [–] 19 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    Gotta draw a line somewhere.

    Would you download a 13 year old?

    I'm not a monster!

    Downloading is illegal. I have morals.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    I'll make your ass sense!

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  • [–] 35 points 10 months ago

    This is crazy

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