Websense also recommends that Error report data should be encrypted with SSL at a minimum, ideally using TLS 1.2 in order to prevent it from NSA snooping. We would have significant concerns if the allegations about government actions are true." An internal presentation suggests it is NSA's powerful XKeyscore spying tool that is used to fish these crash reports out of the massive sea of Internet traffic.A Microsoft spokesperson asked to comment on the reports said, " Microsoft does not provide any government with direct or unfettered access to our customer's data.
When TAO selects a computer somewhere in the world as a target and enters its unique identifiers (an IP address, for example) into the corresponding database, intelligence agents are then automatically notified any time the operating system of that computer crashes and its user receives the prompt to report the problem to Microsoft.