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Installed pirated versions of Windows on all employee and customer computers. We charged the customer for an os install and just used a cracker to activate it.
Is there any way a customer could figure out they were running a cracked version?
Depending on how it was cracked, maybe.
One of the more recent cracks would be autoKMS which would emulate having a key management server and redirecting all activation requests to itself. You could see that service running and the associated files.
If they are using stolen MAK keys, it's unlikely.
when their entire system inevitably gets hacked from a backdoor
Been running cracked Windows for about 23 years now. Where the h4x0r5 at?
Challenge accepted
Then you're just dumb and probably wouldn't know if you were infected lol
Or you just have no idea what the fuck you're talking about. I work in tech. What do you do for a living?
Then you should probably be fired if you think having a criminal have unfettered ring 0 access to your computer is a sane thing to do.
Not like anything has bad happened because of this.
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/pirated-windows-os-cryptominer-and/
https://news.drweb.com/show/?i=14712&lng=en
https://www.engadget.com/2017-05-15-pirated-windows-china-russia-wannacry.html
You literally have no idea what you're talking about. I'm definitely not going to tell some random person my day job.
A genuine windows key is like $20. Don't be stupid.
Lol what. Would like a single source saying how safe cracked windows is, or you know, actual reasoning why you think so. What kind of pro can't afford a windows key. You're legitimately a child.
If you knew more about how the crack worked you know how small the vector is. That would leave it extremely unlikely that not one person that using the same crack would noticed if they got hacked.