When NSA chooses a PC someplace in the world as a mark and begins its unique identifiers an IP address into the analogous database, intelligence agencies will then automatically get a notification any time the operating system of that PC crashes and its user gets the quick to report the problem to Microsoft. An internal code implies it is NSA’s powerful XKeyscore prying tool that is used to export these crash data out of the huge sea of Internet traffic.
The automated crash data are a “neat way” to get “passive access” to a machine, the report continues. Passive access indicates that, initially, only report the computer sends out into the Internet is caught and saved, but the PC itself is not yet changed. Still, even this idle access to error messages provides important insights into difficulties with a targeted person’s PC and, thus, report on security holes that indicates an exploitable for setting malware or spyware on the numb victim’s computer.
Although the system appears to have little interest in practical terms, the NSA still seems to like it because it enables them to have a part of an amusement at the amount of the Seattle-based software giant. In one interior graphic, they changed the text of Microsoft’s original error information with one of their own version, “This information may be intercepted by a foreign sigint system to gather accurate data and fully exploit your machine.” “Sigint” stands for “signals intelligence.”.
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