So, just stating the obvious, you can now (¥) download all xbox games directly from the microsoft store for free? I.e. the xbox is - for now - as completely hacked as the PS Vita?

(¥) you might have to figure out some details

Now I just wish this could give me a license to install the Lego Boost for Windows 10 app that used to be on the windows store until 2020...

From my understanding, if you have the license, then you can still download it but it's not available for new users.

If I read this correctly, Microsoft will be able to reduce the applicability of the temporary-license signing key, meaning that you probably won’t be able to generate permanent licenses for long.

Can this be used to enable the HEVC extension without a M$ account? It's so frustrating they can't license the patents as a lump sum.

This sort of thing over decades has been the best distribution and communication channel for Windows.

ironically, I will be using un-ironically to play Guitar Hero games that I have the physically discs to, on retail hardware, that has the games installed, but not "licensed" to play without physical tethering of the disc in the failed DVD drive.

The double irony is that, even if it works, I may not be able to read my own game-saves since the Console's own public key is on the revocation list. I could sidestep this by resigning the CON files with the default value, 0.

The triple irony may be forthcoming yet. this all looks very familiar indeed.

fuckin brilliant

In case your antivirus is censoring the page: https://archive.is/90XGW

Clip has been around longer than the Xbox One though?

After reading the article, and specially the remarks about this engine being copy-pasted from the Xbox DRM engine , does anyone still believe that Pluton, also copy-pasted from the Xbox, is about end user security? And not totally about MS finally having enforceable DRM on PCs?

Oh and by the way Pluton is now on the latest batch of Intel laptop chips. And has been on AMDs for a while. How soon until Windows requires it?

> As it turns out, data after the signature block isnt checked at all... and it can even override data that came before it. Whenever two blocks of the same type are stored together, the last one overrides all the others before it. So, if we want to change any license data, we can just make a block for it and put it after the signature block!

Amazing.

MAS (which is also hosted on Github) is the perfect example of Microsoft not caring about end user piracy. Just use it.

Does anyone knows a good way to activate MS Office on macOS ? Doesn't matter how many times I buy the thing it eventually forgets the license and calling Microsoft Support usually doesn't result in anything. One day Office starts complaining that it's not activated and then it eventually locks me out of it. It would be nice if the Office license on macOS actually worked but if there's an easy solution for activation I wouldn't look back.

For my personal use I found it trivial to activate my Win10 Professional. I just had to change the server address for the license check and boom fully activated. Not gonna share the specifics here but you can find it easily.

I guess the method described here does „more“ since it’s much more elaborate. Not super familiar with the different levels of win licences

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> which we independently uncovered around the same time it was reported to Microsoft

highly suspicious

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So this is now patched? And this works on xbox store too?

> massgrave.dev

Bit gross to be honest