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Should XP pirates get SP2?

rockoon

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Should XP pirates get SP2?

Imagine if the fire department checked the title of a house before it decided whether or not to extinguish a fire. Of course, all analogies are inherently suspect, and software is not a car or a house. But, as worms and DDoS attacks constantly remind us, the net is only as secure as its weakest link.
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Can't Microsoft just give pirates a special SP2 that sends an email to the local police department after installation?

~~ Paul
 
Paul C. Anagnostopoulos said:
Can't Microsoft just give pirates a special SP2 that sends an email to the local police department after installation?

~~ Paul
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Or asks for the person's credit card number if they want to continue to use Windows?
 
Remember that a lot of these pirated os's are overseas, on dial up. They couldn't possibly download sp2 even if they cared. I'd like to see isp's take a more active role in CUTTING OFF ACCESS to infected boxes. For a while I was getting so much spam and port scans from Taiwan and China I was hoping Comcast would just blacklist the IP allocation for that chunk of the planet.

One good thing I have seen is that some broadband isp's are shipping cable/dsl modems with built in NAT as basic service. Eventually this will cut down on infections.
 
It would have been convenient, but I suppose I'll just have to "borrow" a newer copy.
 
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