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Hackers crack 'theft-proof' WindowsXP LESS than a week after Microsoft launched WindowsXP with a £700 million publicity campaign, an anti-theft feature in the software has been cracked by hackers. BitArts Labs, a security company in Nottingham, said yesterday that Chinese hackers had bypassed the registration process for the operating system. Microsoft built a new form of copyright protection, called Product Activation, into WindowsXP. By disabling WindowsXP if it was not immediately registered with Microsoft, it was meant to ensure the software could only ever be loaded on to one computer. However, pirated copies of WindowsXP stripped of their protection mechanism can be freely downloaded from the internet, said John Safa, of BitArts. "The hackers had been really very clever."
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