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Weighing Profits against Peril
Mark Rasch, 2004-05-24

Denying XP pirates the SP2 upgrade would hurt the Internet to protect Microsoft's bottom line.

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Weighing Profits against Peril 2004-05-25
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Weighing Profits against Peril 2004-05-26
Scott Mace
I got an even better idea: Wipe the drives: 2004-05-26
Penguinisto (3 replies)
Weighing Profits against Peril Viral attackVIA invalid serial propigation 2004-05-28
Devious (1 replies)
I believe thier is considerable risk in Viral propigation of the invalid 20 serial numbers.
This would effectively be a nightmare where by a Virus does permanent patching imparement by replacing the valid code on an infected machine with one of the twenty invalids.
Eeeek. Doesn't anyone at microsoft see past thir own nose?


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