NGOHQ.com reports that crackers have defeated Vista product activation by OEM emulation
It is based on the ACPI_SLIC table in the motherboard BIOS. This allows OEM licenses to work using SLP 2.0 (system locked pre-installation). The previous crack involved modifying the motherboard's BIOS, which would be considered very risky. This time they actually managed to emulate the SLIC table in two ways.Crackers Defeats Vista Activation by OEM Emulation
