Windows XP activation algorithm is broken – Windows XP

The activation algorithm for this particular version has been “cracked”, allowing activation for offline use as the website states log. Posted on tinyapps blog, refers to a post on Reddit in which the software capable of realizing the whole process is presented for the first time. But as it seems, the program is not new and has been available for download on torrents for several months (at least).

As for who created the software, no one in the subreddit post knows, including the user retroreviewytwhich he shared first and in turn is not sure where it came from, speculating that it came from a torrent.

Meanwhile, someone appears to have set out to reverse engineer the software. A user calling himself Neo-Desktop has uploaded the software to Github and mentioned in a thread there that he is working on creating an open source version.

Microsoft ended official support for Windows XP nine years ago, but the operating system refuses to die. In fact, until 2021, Windows XP remained the most popular operating system in Armenia. And in 2019, Forbes detailed a SpiceWorks study that found that one in three US companies still had at least one Windows XP-based machine on their network.

This has forced the company to release security updates when something serious enough appears. Remember WannaCry? Windows XP received a patch update in 2017 while a similar exploit resulted in a new patch in 2019.