[WT-support] Registration...

[Paul Cassel]

That would be so easy to detect by the reg server it's not worth the
bandwidth here.

Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: support-bounces at win-test.com [mailto:support-bounces at win-test.com]
> On Behalf Of Peter Bowyer
> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 9:15 AM
> To: support at win-test.com
> Subject: Re: [WT-support] Registration...
> 
> 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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