Sunday, December 29, 2013
Those Microsoft "crash reports"? They went to the NSA
One of the most striking reported revelations concerned the NSA's
alleged ability to spy on Microsoft Corp.'s crash reports, familiar to
many users of the Windows operating system as the dialogue box which
pops up when a game freezes or a Word document dies. The reporting
system is intended to help Microsoft engineers improve their products
and fix bugs, but Der Spiegel said the NSA was also sifting through the reports to help spies break into machines running Windows. One NSA
document cited by the magazine appeared to poke fun at Microsoft's
expense, replacing the software giant's standard error report message
with the words: "This information may be intercepted by a foreign sigint
(signals intelligence) system to gather detailed information and better
exploit your machine."
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