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Microsoft Issues Takedown Notices Over COFEE
Eugen tips news that Microsoft has sent DMCA takedown notices to several websites to stop them from offering the Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (COFEE) tool for download after it was leaked earlier this month. One of the sites, Cryptome.org, has posted their correspondence with Microsoft over the software. "... Microsoft contacted Network Solutions, which hosts Cryptome, and since John Young, the owner of the website, wasn't too keen on losing his whole website for the sake of a single 15MB file, he removed the download link and sent Network Solutions a notice of compliance."
Everything goes somewhere, and I go everywhere.
Once something is leaked you can take down all the websites you want, but you won't stop P2P Sharing.
I suspect that anyone who wanted it has already downloaded a copy by now.
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Does anyone have a torrent file for this? (And a shasum, perhaps?)
John fearlessly posts pictures of ECHELON listening posts, Dick Cheney's Secret Bunker, the names of MI5 Moles in the IRA, CIA internal memos and the like.
But they can't take him down on NetSol - which is chock-full of spooks itself!
No, that's only Microsoft, and it's DMCA threat.
So. For how long has Cryptome been a disinformation channel?
"Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell
"... Microsoft contacted Network Solutions, which hosts Cryptome, and since John Young, the owner of the website, wasn't too keen on losing his whole website for the sake of a single 15MB file, he removed the download link and sent Network Solutions a notice of compliance."
I can relate to this. Around 2002 I received notice over a few files that a website had on one of my servers. I talked it over with the individual (owner) and he agreed it wasn't worth the effort and removed them. Everyone was happy.
I know /. regularly crucifies people who comply with these notices as wimps, corporate sellouts, etc, but when someone has to put food on the table, and really does not care about the content more than their own livelihood, then there really is no issue. This is why we have wikileaks, etc, so that individuals do not have to bear the brunt of responsibility for hosting these leaked files or other sensitive info.
In the case of COFEE, it was a 'stealing software' issue, and not a 'this is my right to leak this program' issue. Or maybe it is...maybe some reverse engineers can find out COFEE is putting innocent people beind bars?
...as the hot COFEE incident?
It won't work unless you install perl. And it will scan only one drive. There's room for improvement, at the moment COFEE still performs better.
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5156601
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Funny story, just visited cryptome and the files are still downloadable.
Thus guaranteeing thousands of frantic downloads.
Well, uhhh, you'd better take it down. *slurp slurp*
But did he email his copy back to Microsoft?
Won't anybody think of the pizzas?
I do... way too much... Thinking about a turkey & stuffing pizza right now.
Oh, and maybe a ham, pineapple and jalapeno pizza too.
You have the right to remain sentient. If you give up the right to remain sentient, you will be elected to public office
I have no idea what this is. I havn't even read the article. But on the basis that Microsoft don't want me to have it, I'm going to hunt it down.
COFEE is available on Freenet, as are most things like this.
Freenet is very usable at the moment. Speeds are pretty good considering the constraints of encryption and anonymity, and there is a lot of filesharing going on.
Unlike ECHELON listening posts, Dick Cheney's Secret Bunker, the names of MI5 Moles in the IRA, CIA internal memos and the like, Coffee is a copyrighted work which falls under DMCA law, which all registrars must respect.
None of which you listed falls under any laws that would prevent their distribution. If someone stumbles upon some intelligence, there is no law preventing someone from disclosing that intelligence, even classified intelligence if you are a civilian.
All versions I could find. Search TPB. And I'm not going to stop.
I downloaded a copy of it :D
We have laws, you either follow them, or act to change them, or get punished through them. This is how society works.
Yeah, if you believe the brochure version, which only exists on glossy paper in the sales office.
Each of the agencies (and Dick Cheney) mentioned in the post I was responding to are guilty of numerous MASSIVE law-breakings. While Cheney certainly "worked" to change some laws (ugh), for the most part they simply ignored law altogether. And they sure as heck haven't been punished. "Society" in your context basically means, "Plantation Rules for the Sunburned to Follow on Pain of Lash" or "Do As I Say, Not As I Do".
I mean, for crying out loud! --ECHELON basically sucks up information without permission on a much wider scale than any torrent system dispenses information, but hey, that's fine. National Security, right? (Better known as, "Population control so that the elite can keep their cushy positions up in the Big House and not have to fear the exploited masses.")
Anyway, my point was more an expression of amazement at the general irony I saw in the AC's comment. "Yes, yes all that other stuff, but THIS! This is a matter of copyright violation! THIS is a serious issue, sir! Sir!"
Fuck that. It IS a serious issue, but not in the ways it is being presented. After all the bullshit economic semantic posturing is swept aside from the surface, the meta argument, the stone upon which this whole war is being waged is this: "Free Thought" --Are we allowed to share knowledge openly or not?
It's about control of our minds. Free Will versus Slavery.
I know that sounds overly high and mighty, disconnected from "reality" to some people, like an evasion from the hard "here and now", but the "here and now" for such people is a total fabrication built on the brochure bullshit sold to them exactly by the people who are enslaving them. The economy is a giant lie designed to create a legion of debt slaves and a small number of obedient managers of debt slaves. That's all. Nothing more. I'm not even talking metaphorically; that's how it works. Money IS debt. And such people who buy into that scam, who believe in the hard "here and now" are already lost, fallen pawns, content to read their brochures while they are being raped and bled.
-FL