Google’s codesearch

There is a lot of stir-up about Google’s CodeSearch. There is code to be found that’s better not found or used at all. One example being a WinZip keygenerator. I’m not going to include the search as a link (you people are smart enough) for obvious reasons. But the code found actually does compile into a working generator.
I tested it in a fresh Windows XP installation (in VMWare) that did not have WinZIP yet. I installed it, ran the new program and pasted the generated registration information into WinZIP. Voila: a registered version.

Mind you: I legally own all software mentioned in this post. I only ran this exercise because I was curious to see whether it actually worked. It did. I deleted the registered version of WinZIP afterwards.