Microsoft Secretly Marking Windows XP CD-ROMs

Thanks to CestLaVie for this one: Technical beta testers that downloaded Windows XP Home or Professional Edition from Microsoft´s servers last weekend might want to be careful about giving out copies of the CD-ROMs that they generated: Microsoft has embedded a security check into each CD that uniquely identifies ea ...

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Thanks to CestLaVie for this one:
Technical beta testers that downloaded Windows XP Home or Professional Edition from Microsoft´s servers last weekend might want to be careful about giving out copies of the CD-ROMs that they generated: Microsoft has embedded a security check into each CD that uniquely identifies each tester, so the company will be able to tell if another user installs Windows XP using that tester´s CD-ROMs.
 
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