Just before the weekend several sites mentioned that a keygenerator for Windows Vista activation had seen the sunlight for the first time. Reports today states that the developer behind the brute force activation hack has admitted that the program doesn’t work. Apparently Adrian Kingsley-Hughes of ZD Net has found some activation keys with the program, but that was probably a little white lie to make his article a bit more intersting.

Windows Vista “Brute Force Keygen” a hoax [Engadget]