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Re: Inside TAO: Documents Reveal Top NSA Hacking Unit by vxxzy on Sunday December 29, 2013 @01:48PM (#6980673)
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.
Re: Inside TAO: Documents Reveal Top NSA Hacking Unit by caf on Sunday December 29, 2013 @07:34PM (#6982377)
Yes, 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?
Re: Inside TAO: Documents Reveal Top NSA Hacking Unit by MacsHeadroom on Sunday December 29, 2013 @10:15PM (#6982825)
Do 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.
Re: Inside TAO: Documents Reveal Top NSA Hacking Unit by caf on Sunday December 29, 2013 @10:46PM (#6982916)
Why 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?

Re: Inside TAO: Documents Reveal Top NSA Hacking Unit by fudged71 on Sunday December 29, 2013 @07:13PM (#6982277)
A... Genuine Advantage!