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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. The Site... by JBG667 · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.decafme.org/

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  2. Disable autorun, lock your computer by OverlordQ · · Score: 4, Informative

    AFAIK, if your computer is locked COFEE relies on autorun to work, so disable autorun and lock your computer will pretty much thwart COFEE, since it would somehow require bypassing MS's supplied GINA dll, which given it's Microsoft, might know how to do, but would find it highly unlikely.

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