[WT-support] Registration...

[Peter Bowyer]

On 16/03/07, Simon Pearson <simon at attenuate.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 08:58 -0400, Paul Cassel wrote:
> > When the registration key is initially entered, it would be helpful to
> > people activating WT for the first time if they were provide an
> > ACCEPTED or INVALID key status.   Also, upon successful registration
> > you should inform the new user that to access full registered features
> > they need to restart WT.
> >
> > Finally, when selecting HELP, WT should show the status of
> > registration.   Currently a new owner is really never sure and may be
> > apprehensive starting into a contest.
>
> I believe the above were deliberately not introduced in an effort to
> make it more cumbersome to try and create a 'keygen'/cracking tool to
> allow one to register WT without paying for it.

What a great use for a bot net - a brute-force attack on Wintest's
registration system :-)

Peter G4MJS

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Peter Bowyer
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