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Hackers Counter Microsoft COFEE With Some DECAF

Posted by kdawson on from the please-mister-moto dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Two developers have created 'Detect and Eliminate Computer Assisted Forensics' (DECAF). The tool tries to stop Microsoft's Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (COFEE), which helps law enforcement officials grab data from password-protected or encrypted sources. After COFEE was leaked to the Web, Microsoft issued takedown notices to sites hosting the software." The article notes that DECAF is not open source, so you aren't really going to know for sure what it will do to your computer.

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  1. Microsue by GuNgA-DiN · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh Microsoft.... is there *anything* that can't be handled by a lawsuit?

  2. Re:DECAF: A welcoming news by skine · · Score: 5, Funny

    I prefer to RAGE against the machine.

    BAH-duh BAH BAH-duh BAH DAH-duh.

  3. Re:So let me get this straight... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Linux: optimized for child porn!

  4. Re:DECAF: A welcoming news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Coding in the name of!

  5. Re:The Site... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    What's next?

    Decaf2000?
    DecafXP?
    DecafVista?
    Decaf7?

  6. Re:Confused? by Monkeedude1212 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Cofee attempts to decrypt your drive.

  7. Just wait!!! by Monkeedude1212 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Soon I'll Release my Beta version of FRENCH VANILA

    (Forensic Reducing Emulator Named Coherantly and Handsomely for Very Awesome Naughty and Illicit Activities)

  8. Re:DECAF: A welcoming news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fuck you, I won't code what you tell me!

  9. Re:no source? it's a trap! by ozmanjusri · · Score: 2, Funny
    Slow down, stop blowin' the froth and chill a little.

    That's right, it's a frappe!

    --
    "I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
  10. Re:DECAF: A welcoming news by Per+Wigren · · Score: 5, Funny

    Some of those who share sources
    are the same that hate bosses

    --
    My other account has a 3-digit UID.
  11. Re:LiveCD by ZeroExistenZ · · Score: 3, Funny

    were I living in a communist country like China, i'd use a linux livecd with no attached hard drive.

    I first encrypted all my temporary data, encrypted everything in cache, it was a sweet algorithm. But I figured that wasn't enough, an onion-rings didn't help either. (I tried, I failed.)

    So then I decided to use my PC without keyboard, so they couldn't log my keystrokes or via processing the audio for my keystrokes discover what I was typing. From there up, everything was a success, I could later remove my monitor so noone could see what I was doing and I could just imagine keyboardinupt on my PC.

    I wasn't ever so productive and most of all SECURE.

    Soon enough, I felt my mousemovements could also be secured by removing my mouse. Once I mastered this way of working, they suggested I also could work without turning on my PC, as they could measure my work by reading radiation from my CPU "if they really would be wanting to read my work", just tossing out my HD wasn't sufficient. So, right now, I'm 100% secure, sitting at my desk, imagening my work.

    I did read something about mindreading, but I think that's just FUD.

    --
    I think we can keep recursing like this until someone returns 1