Keyhole – Forge own Windows Store licenses
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Keyhole – Forge own Windows Store licenses
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Re: Keyhole – Forge own Windows Store licenses
#2For my personal use I found it trivial to activate my Win10 Professional.
I just had to change the server address for the license check and boom fully activated.
Not gonna share the specifics here but you can find it easily.
I guess the method described here does „more“ since it’s much more elaborate. Not super familiar with the different levels of win licences
Re: Keyhole – Forge own Windows Store licenses
#3For my personal use I found it trivial to activate my Win10 Professional. I just had to change the server address for the license check and boom fully activated. Not gonna share the specifics here but you can find it easily. I guess the method described here does „more“ since it’s much more elaborate. Not super familiar with the different levels of win licences
One of Massgrave’s most famous “products” is a script that performs such server activation, so if anybody wants to find it look no further than the OP article. (Although it's not too hard to perform such activation manually either!)
Re: Keyhole – Forge own Windows Store licenses
#4For my personal use I found it trivial to activate my Win10 Professional. I just had to change the server address for the license check and boom fully activated. Not gonna share the specifics here but you can find it easily. I guess the method described here does „more“ since it’s much more elaborate. Not super familiar with the different levels of win licences
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#5After reading the article, and specially the remarks about this engine being copy-pasted from the Xbox DRM engine , does anyone still believe that Pluton, also copy-pasted from the Xbox, is about end user security? And not totally about MS finally having enforceable DRM on PCs?
Oh and by the way Pluton is now on the latest batch of Intel laptop chips. And has been on AMDs for a while. How soon until Windows requires it?
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#6This sort of thing over decades has been the best distribution and communication channel for Windows.
Re: Keyhole – Forge own Windows Store licenses
#7For my personal use I found it trivial to activate my Win10 Professional. I just had to change the server address for the license check and boom fully activated. Not gonna share the specifics here but you can find it easily. I guess the method described here does „more“ since it’s much more elaborate. Not super familiar with the different levels of win licences
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Re: Keyhole – Forge own Windows Store licenses
#8After reading the article, and specially the remarks about this engine being copy-pasted from the Xbox DRM engine , does anyone still believe that Pluton, also copy-pasted from the Xbox, is about end user security? And not totally about MS finally having enforceable DRM on PCs? Oh and by the way Pluton is now on the latest batch of Intel laptop chips. And has been on AMDs for a while. How soon until Windows requires…
I may be naive, but I still do. Skepticism is warranted, yet outright dismissal based on conjecture is its own brand of fallacious reasoning. Can Microsoft potentially benefit? Certainly. But that doesn't negate the possibility of genuine user security motivations and benefits for end users
Re: Keyhole – Forge own Windows Store licenses
#9For my personal use I found it trivial to activate my Win10 Professional. I just had to change the server address for the license check and boom fully activated. Not gonna share the specifics here but you can find it easily. I guess the method described here does „more“ since it’s much more elaborate. Not super familiar with the different levels of win licences
Massgrave has their script for HWID and KMS and Office activations :)
Re: Keyhole – Forge own Windows Store licenses
#10After reading the article, and specially the remarks about this engine being copy-pasted from the Xbox DRM engine , does anyone still believe that Pluton, also copy-pasted from the Xbox, is about end user security? And not totally about MS finally having enforceable DRM on PCs? Oh and by the way Pluton is now on the latest batch of Intel laptop chips. And has been on AMDs for a while. How soon until Windows requires…
>does anyone still believe that Pluton, also copy-pasted from the Xbox, is about end user security?
I never did. The worst part is explaining it to people drinking the MS coolaid. I'm an MS admin so people at work love Win11, Intune etc all that max lockdown shit. To me that's not what Windows is about, for me Windows is excellent because of the admin tools and backwards compatibility. But hey that's just me.
Proton will be another TPM thing, introduce it, wait 5 years, then mandate it. They have time.