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Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ · 2w
So I got 3D Movie Maker open sourced back in 2022, but annoyingly they didn't include the source for the installer, which means I wasn't able to solve one of the weirdest mysteries of 3D Movie Maker: ...
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I found this out because I was writing code to patch the EXE and I naively assumed there were, like, a couple versions (one for each language?) and after collecting all those hashes, I would know all the versions.

NOPE! every single user has a different EXE hash
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Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ · 2w
it turns out the original installer microsoft built back in 1995 embeds a randomly generated serial number INTO THE EXE ITSELF when it installs it