Nuthing. You could manually reproduce what massgrave does.

How much time would you need to manually reproduce their 20k lines of activation code? And what qualification would you need?

Answering this question seriously, I'm a programmer / IT know-it-all, and I did it under two hours, which included firing up my own activation emulator, toward which I point my Windows. Now that I have the process down, it's taking seconds for each new Windows.

Last time I checked it was like 200 lines.

Check properly next time, their 200 lines PowerShell script is downloading some 20k line cmd monstrosity https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts/b...

But this level of scrutiny is precisely why such DIY security claims ring hollow.

From what I can remember, there are like 10 various routines for different ways to activate different products and most of the code is just boilerplate, no? You definitely can trace the hwid codepath in a reasonable time.

Whatever it is, I'm sure it's not half as bad as things that Microsoft puts there. After all, who knows what's in Windows source code.

if anything bad ever happened after using MAS there would be piles of evidence because MAS is brought up every time people discuss Windows license price. Equating piracy to malware is disingenuous and malware is not the only bad factor. If you consider all of them it turns out that there is a lesser chance you'll get screwed if you pirate be it music, movies or operating systems