New Vista hack requires no serial key

It was only a matter of time before Vista was even more effectively hacked. Hacks to get Vista activated have been cropping up ever since it released, there have been a number of hacks to this point, one of the most famous being the BIOS crack but now something more insidious has come along.

Gizmodo is running a story about a hacker group known as NoPE which claims to have created a Vista installation DVD that requires no hack, no serial key and no bypassing, it simply activates, works and goes about updating right after the install.

This is very similar to those corporate editions of Windows XP that almost anyone could buy, years ago, the easiest source for most would have been a college book store where a corporate copy of Windows XP Professional could be had for as little as $15 in my case. Of course, this is no longer true for XP or Vista as the “golden age” has passed.