Today, I found out that 987-6543210 is a perfectly valid Windows 95 product key.
Gigazine, "The product key of Windows 95 was implemented with an ultra-simple algorithm that can break through '111-1111111' and '000-0000000'", 2023-03-04: https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20230304-windows-95-product-key/
Did you know Windows 95 didn't just come on CDs? It also came in a pouch of floppy disks!
Raymond Chen, "The Old New Thing," "How many floppy disks did Windows 95 come on?", Microsoft Dev Blogs, 2005-08-19: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050819-10/?p=34513
My win95 lappy didn't have a CD-ROM drive, so agreeing to the license by opening the misshapen pouch it was printed on was the only way I could install it.
"But that's not precise! They'll flag people doing nothing wrong! Skilled operators won't get noticed either!"
That doesn't matter.
Are you afraid - perhaps of being wrongly targeted?
If you're afraid it's working perfectly.
Here's how #surveillance works:
Watch what is normal to learn what is not normal.
"But my life is boring! I've nothing to hide!"
If someone sees enough of your boring days, they can easily tell when your day isn't boring to you. Perhaps because you're up to something?
If someone can learn what a boring day looks like for the typical person, they can easily spot the person not having a boring day. Perhaps that person is up to something?
What program would need such extreme witchcraft!?
Internet Explorer 4, according to WinWorld, and I'm inclined to agree.
If you lock an iPhone, then blast it with as many attempts as possible to unlock it unsuccessfully because you're sure it's the right code, then Apple will basically brick that iPhone, leaving you with no choice but to either get a desktop PC or go to an Apple store, nuke and pave the iPhone, and pray you didn't keep anything off of the someone-else's-computer called iCloud.
Ask me how I know.
honest to god itd be funny as shit if we abandoned win10 and 11 en masse and just went back to win7 as an F U to ms lmao
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