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Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 07:06:57 +0800
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Subject: Is there any Substance to this Email ??
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From: tph@longhorn.uucp (Tom Harrington)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Win 98 Snitch?
Message-ID: <7279b8$ahr1@eccws1.dearborn.ford.com>

Mark Statzer (mstatz@net66.om) wrote:

: Microsoft slapped two more lawsuit against one teenager and one
: retired worker for using pirated Windows 98 software.

: For your information on how Microsoft actually trace
: PIRATED/COPIED/UNLICENSED Windows 98:

: Whenever you logon into the Internet, during the verifying password
: duration. Your ISP (Internet Service provider eg:SingNET, PacNET,
: CyberNET, SwiftNET) will download a SUB-REGISTRY ENCRYPTED HEXADECIMAL
: (containing all your PROGRAMS serial numbers installed into Win98!!)
: file from your Windows 98 registry. Then they send this SUB-REGISTRY
: to Microsoft for verification. And ONLY Microsoft knows how to decode
: this encrypted hexadecimal file. If Microsoft verified that the serial
: numbers are authentic, then they WILL REGISTER THOSE NUMBERS FOR YOU
: A-U-T-O-M-A-T-C-A-L-L-Y !!!

: And if Microsoft denied those serial numbers, then they will send an
: E-Mail to the ISP you dialed into and your ISP will start tracing
: everyone who logons to their systems. That's why during sometime for
: no reason your Internet started slowing down. And if your ISP verified
: that the SUB-REGISTRY ENCRYPTED HEXADECIMAL file is yours, they will
: send
: your information over to Microsoft Singapore. And there they will
: decide whether to take actions or not.

And then, if they _do_ decide to take action, black helicopters start
circling your house, using mind-control rays to bend you to Microsoft's
will.  If this doesn't cut it (say, you're wearing a tin-foil hat), the
men in black show up and remove your whole computer, and then use their
memory-zapping thingy to erase any memory of ever having a computer.
You'll then be officially branded as a dangerous outlaw subversive type
(even though you no longer have your PIRATE/COPIED/UNLICENSED software,
you've demonstrated that you're the type of person who will _get_ such
software) and will not be able to get jobs, insurance, loans, etc.  MS
will tap your phone, and their agents will follow your every move.

: There is already 54 cases in Singapore regarding uses of
: PIRATE/COPIED/UNLICENSED Windows 98.

Finally, when the revolution comes, MS will see to it that your house is
high on the list of sites for the UN invaders to hit with tactical
nukes.

: Is there any Substance to this Email ??

It's all true.  I had to go public with this information, even though
the MS stormtroopers will doubtless show up at any second now.  The
people have a right to know.  DON'T EVER GO ON LINE!!!  YOUR LIFE
DEPENDS ON IT!!!!

: Do you Guys think that there exists such a registry in Windows 98
: Has microsoft sued anybody for illegal use of it ??

Sued?  SUED???!!?  When MS gets through with you, you're going to WISH
that they'd jusT SUED you!  These people are EVIL!!! They kidnapped my
dog and G$%<S-F4>@^<S-F6>RB. f
NO CARRIER

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Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@philodox.com>
Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/>
44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'