Someone Cracked Windows XP Activation for Offline Use

The activation algorithm for Windows XP has, incredibly, been completely cracked, allowing for complete offline activation. register (Via Ars Technica, A Blog post on TinyApps cover a Reddit post discussing itBut the program allowing this has apparently existed for at least several months, possibly floating in the ether as a torrent download.

Who created the software, no one knows in the subreddit post, with user previewwho shared this first and not even sure where They Got it, guessing it came from a torrent somewhere.

In the meantime, it appears that someone is working on reverse engineering the software. A user calling himself Neo-Desktop dropped the program up on Github and said in a discussion There they are working to create an open source version.