Why NSA spied on inexplicably unencrypted Windows crash reports

JMH · Dec 31, 2013

Why NSA spied on inexplicably unencrypted Windows crash reports

The National Security Agency's X-KEYSCORE program gives the spy agency access to a wide range of Internet traffic. Any information that isn't encrypted is, naturally, visible to passive Internet wiretaps of the kind the NSA and other intelligence agencies use. This in turn will typically expose such things as e-mails, online chats, and general browsing behavior.

And, according to slides published this weekend by Der Spiegel, this information also includes crash reports from Microsoft's Windows Error Reporting facility built in to Windows.

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Why NSA spied on inexplicably unencrypted Windows crash reports

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