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Microsoft COFEE Leaked

Posted by Soulskill on from the not-so-hot-cofee-incident dept.

54mc writes "Crunchgear reports that Microsoft's long-searched-for forensics tool, COFEE, has been leaked. The tool started on a small, private tracker, but has since worked its way to The Pirate Bay. Not all those who have gotten hold of it are enthused, and reviews have ranged from 'disappointing' to 'useless.' From the article: 'You have absolutely no use for the program. It's not something like Photoshop or Final Cut Pro, an expensive application that you download for the hell of it on the off-chance you need to put Dave Meltzer's face on Brett Hart's body as part of a message board thread. No, COFEE is 100 percent useless to you.'"

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  1. Re:The Solution? HURD! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Faggot.

  2. Re:But by ToasterMonkey · · Score: -1, Troll

    Really... why should we have to look up something stated in the summary as "100% useless to us"? Thanks fuck head!

    Here

    "Microsoft has developed a small plug-in device that investigators can use to quickly extract forensic data from computers that may have been used in crimes.

    The COFEE, which stands for Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor, is a USB "thumb drive" that was quietly distributed to a handful of law-enforcement agencies last June. Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith described its use to the 350 law-enforcement experts attending a company conference Monday.

    The device contains 150 commands that can dramatically cut the time it takes to gather digital evidence, which is becoming more important in real-world crime, as well as cybercrime. It can decrypt passwords and analyze a computer's Internet activity, as well as data stored in the computer."

    That was real painful, now the readers can skip the whole damned thread they only opened to find out WTF COFFEE is, it really is useless to them, and move on. OUTSTANDING.

  3. Re:But by tietokone-olmi · · Score: 0, Troll

    heh heh heh butthole heh heh heh heh heh

  4. Re:While I don't have any use for the program by djfuq · · Score: 0, Troll

    Armed and polite, like America, Africa and the middle east just to name a few armed regions of the world... very polite indeed.
    Guns make police officers quite polite, don't you agree?
    Murder is a very polite way of saying "fuck you" is it not?
    polite.

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