In article <
88874d71-6372-4b6b...@googlegroups.com>,
skybuck2000 <
skybu...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>New hypothesis:
>
>Windows 7 home edition product key leaked via one of my youtube videos ?!?!?
It seems entirely plausible that you have now shared your product key
with your 10,000 closest friends on the Internet.
It's kinda like shooting and showing a video of you logging into your
bank account's Internet portal. If your fingers are in view of the
camera, you're giving away secrets.
>How the fuck am I supposed to know that Microsoft is stupid enough to display the product key on this SCREEN ?!
I would think that "use your eyes" would get you most of the way
there. Getting the rest of the way there would require using another
organ.
Since I haven't looked at your video I don't know which "this SCREEN"
you are referring to. If it's part of the Windows system-administration
UI or control panel, then it's likely that this particular screen is
_supposed_ to show that sort of information, because its job is to help
a capable system adminstrator manage the system. There has to be at
least one such UI available, for an administrator to know just what
ID was used to activate a system's Windows installation in the first
place.
>Now the question is: is this information enough to steal my key and cause an activation problem ?!?!?!?
Seems entirely likely. If the ID shown on that screen is the same one
as on the "product key" sticker, then yes, anyone who saw it would
then have the same information you had when you activated the machine
in the first place.
>Gjes mothafucking christ.
I don't think that he had anything to do with this.
If you've lost control of your Windows activation in the way you
suspect, I'd have to categorize it as an entirely self-inflicted
injury.