Re: Inside TAO: Documents Reveal Top NSA Hacking Unit
by vxxzy on Sunday December 29, 2013 @01:48PM
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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.
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Re: Inside TAO: Documents Reveal Top NSA Hacking Unit
by caf on Sunday December 29, 2013 @07:34PM
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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
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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.