Re:Microsoft blocks EdgeDeflector to force Windows 11 users ...
by at_a_remove on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @04:26PM
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That's weird, because I have used Bittorrent once, about a decade back, just to see what it was like, for a few movies but no software because, well, malware. I downloaded ISOs from a MS site and bought a key off of a reseller. So, no, I don't feel highly privileged.
Re:Microsoft blocks EdgeDeflector to force Windows 11 users ...
by mschuster91 on Thursday November 18, 2021 @06:23AM
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> I downloaded ISOs from a MS site and bought a key off of a reseller.
The latter part is the problem. LTSB/C keys are illegal to resell and MS regularly bans keys they suspect of having been sold.
Because it's incredibly hard to outright impossible to get a legal version of this. AFAIK it's only available for MSDN subscribers, OEMs/ODMs/embedded device manufacturers and large-volume customers and illegal to resell; on top of that unlike regular Windows ISOs there are no public download links that you can then either activate with a key you happened to find somewhere or run one of the usual activation cracks.
No matter what, unless you are in a highly privileged position you do not have a way of obtaining LTSB without exposing yourself to legal or security risks.
ETA: Just had a look on a well-known torrent site - "LTSB" yielded no usable results (> 10 seeds), and "LTSC" only one that matches the seed count, and it doesn't even ship supposedly virgin ISOs but modified ones, so no way to know if at least the install media is free of malware (by comparing it to known MS hashes). Jesus, I didn't know the situation was that bad.