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They actually use the their sniffing capabilities to capture error reports sent by windows... Then use that info to target the machine. What an advantage.
by vxxzy 13y ago
They actually use the their sniffing capabilities to capture error reports sent by windows... Then use that info to target the machine. What an advantage.
- fudged71 13y agoA... Genuine Advantage!
- caf 13y agoYes, I think this must be the most interesting part of the report: In one internal graphic, they replaced the text of Microsoft's original error message with one of their own reading, "This information may be intercepted by a foreign sigint system to gather detailed information and better exploit your machine." Does Microsoft's error reporting mechanism even use SSL?
- MacsHeadroom 13y agoDo you think the NSA doesn't either have Microsoft's private certs or has broke then already? I can't be bothered to find a source right now, but they already have all MS source code- so there's that too.
- caf 13y agoWhy would I ask the question if I thought that they certainly didn't have those private keys? It is an interesting question regardless - can anyone at my ISP read these error reports, too?