Sun 2003-06-15 14:50, Charles Scaglione (1:106/2000) wrote to Ross Cassell:

 CS> BTW, that generated Product ID I mention above is the way Microsoft has 
 CS> been able to block the widely illegal "corporate version"
of Pro from 
 CS> obtaining updates from the MS update site.

Hmm.  It would be quite bad if a large scale security exploit was found in
a popular Microsoft product but they only allowed legitimate users of the
product to fix the bug and plug the hole.

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