http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/ Engadget Comments for Microsoft gives cops COFEE: free computer forensic tools http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/Apr 29th 2008 10:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/or maybe Disc Of New Unreleased Trial Software :-D.]]>Apr 29th 2008 11:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/Apr 29th 2008 11:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/Apr 29th 2008 10:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/
minutes...]]>Apr 29th 2008 10:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/you men it's not yet on BT ites all around?]]>Apr 29th 2008 10:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/
Nothing new about this tool, Police have been using other tools forever, now Microsoft is giving them a MS-branded tool.]]>Apr 29th 2008 11:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/Apr 29th 2008 10:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/Apr 29th 2008 10:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/Apr 30th 2008 10:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/Apr 29th 2008 10:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/Apr 29th 2008 10:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/Apr 29th 2008 11:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/Apr 30th 2008 9:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/Apr 30th 2008 10:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/Apr 29th 2008 10:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/
Noooooo.......]]>Apr 29th 2008 10:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/Apr 29th 2008 11:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/This is a news, because first somebody at microsoft was able to do something.
And second because they at least admit that open source is superior.

I'm sure it includes ping.exe a powerful tool for tracking computer on the internet. ]]>Apr 29th 2008 10:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/
Do you thing a cop could actually figure that out? Doubt it, otherwise they would've achieved more in life.

So this time, MS pulls an 'Apple' and just makes it easy.]]>Apr 29th 2008 10:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/
Spoken like a true idiot!

I "thing" the level of expertise of many forensic investigators in LE would make you look like a pre-schooler banging away at a Fisher-Price computer.

http://www.fisher-price.com/img/product_shots/L3480_d_1.jpg
]]>Apr 30th 2008 10:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/Apr 29th 2008 10:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/Apr 29th 2008 10:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/"It looks like you're hacking a computer. Would you like me to: ....."]]>Apr 30th 2008 1:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/
(Before you blame me for this message: No I'm not being serious... However, I really do think that this thing is a cheap USB stick with a bunch of totally useless tools)]]>Apr 29th 2008 10:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/( Not really being serious either, but it is a microsoft mentality, not that I have nothing against them.)]]>Apr 29th 2008 10:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/Apr 29th 2008 10:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/linux-user-forced-to-use-windows-as-part-of-home-confinement/

Linux/BSD/Mac users (with illegal stuff): Be afraid. Be very afraid. :-)

And yeah, I got banned for messing around with the comment system and pointing out one of it's "secret bugs" in public :-P.... But it happened during that live Apple event, no one ever noticed... The news were flowing too fast to comment for the Apple lovers, and Apple haters turned off the internet...]]>Apr 29th 2008 11:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/Apr 29th 2008 10:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/Apr 29th 2008 10:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/Apr 29th 2008 10:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/]]>Apr 29th 2008 11:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/Apr 29th 2008 11:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/
Decrypting passwords? From what I can recall, passwords are stored as a hash, which is not something you can just "decrypt," that's called GUESSING or BRUTE FORCING and that's far more of an attack on security rather than a "transformation" of decrypting. While possible, it would take time for sure.

Then again, I am glad I have made the switch to Linux as of late for most of my computing needs.

]]>Apr 29th 2008 11:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/Apr 29th 2008 11:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/Apr 30th 2008 7:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/
if it worries you encrypt your drive as these tools do not work with encrypted drives. if its a usb driver someone needs to find it and make a patch for it for the paranoid, i for one welcome our microsoft 'hacker' overlords]]>Apr 30th 2008 12:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/The correct procedure in such cases is going into a suspects place, doing a memory dump of the RAM, sealing and securing the computer, bringing it into the lab AND then examining the contents.
It would be sad if some kiddy porn storing perv gets to go free if some stupid cop decides to stick this USB stick into the evidence computer.

Real Life is not CSI.]]>Apr 30th 2008 1:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/--------
Everything can be done under the umbrella of 'anti-terrorism' these days. At least in my country (Australia) and the US, that's for sure.]]>Apr 30th 2008 5:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/
But seriously, there are sneak-and-peek warrants, and they suck.]]>Apr 30th 2008 10:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/15/AR2008011503663.html

]]>Apr 30th 2008 1:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/Apr 30th 2008 2:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/May 1st 2008 12:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/Apr 30th 2008 4:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/evidance.txt" and have a complete list of all your files, sure they couldn't open them, but if you have 72,000 files named *.mp3, they could probably still win a case against you to an ignorant jury.

Most people use simple passwords anyway, to brute force an 8 character only alphabet password takes no time at all. MyC1viaLriGht$, try to bruteforce that.

Just use linux, encrypt your files using a 512-bit key, password lock your harddrive, and wear a tin-foil hat.

COFEE is really just an inclined table, some saran-wrap, and a bucket of water. Guaranteed to get your password in 5 minutes or less.]]>Sep 8th 2008 3:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/
or for the secure in this case? fts, just doesn't flow right.]]>Apr 30th 2008 7:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/Apr 30th 2008 7:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://wiki.hak5.org/wiki/USB_Switchblade and in the forums at http://forums.hak5.org/index.php?board=20.0]]>Apr 30th 2008 8:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://impatientsufferance.com/2008/04/30/microsoft-invites-police-into-your-computer-offers-them-a-cofee-213/]]>Apr 30th 2008 10:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-gives-cops-cofee-free-computer-forensic-tools/Apr 30th 2008 10:53AM