• JCreazy@midwest.social
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    2 years ago

    I’ve always wondered about this, doesn’t Microsoft know when people use this? Or is it just an anonymous number among legit ones and Microsoft can’t tell a difference?

    • meseek #2982@lemmy.ca
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      2 years ago

      MS servers cannot tell the difference between where the HWID came from. If it’s there, MS treats it as legitimate. As if they issued it themselves.

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      2 years ago

      just a different way to do that. the previous being affected by microsoft’s back-end changes in their move to (finally) kill-off using win7/8 keys for new win10/11 activations.