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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. Q: does COFEE run on Linux? by alexmin · · Score: 0, Redundant

    No? GOOD

  2. Confused? by BountyX · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I'm a little confused, what exactly is the point of DECAF? Wouldn't encrypting your hard drive be more effective?

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  3. Multiple Mod Categories by TangoMargarine · · Score: 0, Redundant

    +1 Funny, -1 Troll, +1 WTF

    IMO there are three kinds of funny: Funny as in joke funny, dry funny (e.g., sarcasm, dramatic irony), and "what the heck, where did that come from?" funny.

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