The "Official" RC download for Technet/MSDN

jimbo45 said:

maybe I'll download when it is available for public download and do a bit for bit comparison of the two iso's.

I doubt that any typical hacker could hide his / her work so well that both the hashes (CRC32, MD5, SHA1) AND the bit comparisons would agree 100% with the "Official download".

If they are THAT good I'm sure they would be working on "more productive and profitable" activities not necessarily legal either.

It's just that I've got my main machine running so nicely I really don't want to "undo and untangle" it all again.

Cheers
jimbo

lol
you just dont know with humans though...
humans can do the most irrational things these days....
i doubt that any hacker can crack a SHA hash and masquerade a download without a giant amount of computer power (i dont even think the world's computers has such power to crack the algorithm in time... i mean it leaked a few days after it was compiled...)
anyways it would have made news on the secuirity front as this is unheard of (at least with SHA) to be able to masquerade such a download...

darkassain said:

lol
you just dont know with humans though...
humans can do the most irrational things these days....
i doubt that any hacker can crack a SHA hash and masquerade a download without a giant amount of computer power (i dont even think the world's computers has such power to crack the algorithm in time... i mean it leaked a few days after it was compiled...)
anyways it would have made news on the secuirity front as this is unheard of (at least with SHA) to be able to masquerade such a download...

That's what I thought.

At the current state of the art I doubt if all the entire planets computers together running for the rest of the lifetime of the Sun (approx 5 Billion years left although Earth will be totally uninhabitable for humans after approx 500 million years -- nothing to do with Human activity -- just the way the sun works --as it "consumes" its nuclear hydrogen converting to helium it gets over time slightly brighter, larger and hotter -- another topic however)
would be sufficient to crack the algorithm.

(Don't get me started on "Quantum Computers" however).

I might download the official RC after the initial feeding frenzy has died away but I'm more than happy at the moment.

Cheers
jimbo

Can somebody tell me why I can not remove the watermark?
I tried it two ways, but it is still here! In the build7000 it wasn't problem.
Has something changed?

I tried these:
-"bcdedit.exe /set testsigning off"
- RemoveWatermarkX86.exe
none of them helped.

nate42nd said:

What are you smoking? Something better than me:)

Keep smoking Jimbo

You mean this stuff - still there but this pic was taken before the Euro. This stall is STILL there selling as usual.

Cheers
jimbo

jimbo45 said:

maybe I'll download when it is available for public download and do a bit for bit comparison of the two iso's.

I doubt that any typical hacker could hide his / her work so well that both the hashes (CRC32, MD5, SHA1) AND the bit comparisons would agree 100% with the "Official download".

If they are THAT good I'm sure they would be working on "more productive and profitable" activities not necessarily legal either.

It's just that I've got my main machine running so nicely I really don't want to "undo and untangle" it all again.

Cheers
jimbo

If the ISO you got has the same hash values of the official RC then IT IS the "real" RC regardless of where you got it.

robertoszwald said:

Can somebody tell me why I can not remove the watermark?
I tried it two ways, but it is still here! In the build7000 it wasn't problem.
Has something changed?

I tried these:
-"bcdedit.exe /set testsigning off"
- RemoveWatermarkX86.exe
none of them helped.

Google "watermark removal script" theres two versions X86 X64.

Works on all versions and has no adverse effect.