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Hackers Counter Microsoft COFEE With Some DECAF
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.
Haha, that'd be the perfect trojan horse. Have people with (illicit) things to hide run a program that claims to prevent them from being caught, all the while this program is just reporting them. And even if they post code, they could just post any old source code and claim it was used to generate the executable.
http://www.decafme.org/
There are 10 kinds of people in the world > > Those who understand binary and those who don't
I have incriminating information on my computer so I'm supposed to download and run some closed-source software from people who now know I have this information, and it will make my problems go away. Right.....
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.
Your hair look like poop, Bob! - Wanker.
...to distribute rootkits and create botnets. Even better than those "Free Antivirus Software" downloads.
Seriously, is anybody going to trust something like this without the source? Somebody intelligent enough not to open unsolicited email attachments, at any rate.
(And yes, I realize there might be "legitimate" reasons for keeping the source out of law enforcement's hands, but frankly [at risk of trolling] I would rather be spied on by the government than identity thieves.)
I prefer to RAGE against the machine.
BAH-duh BAH BAH-duh BAH DAH-duh.
I realize a large number of people won't trust it because its not opensource. I can see the authors view point though of not wanting Microsoft to turn around and make a patch against it. If you don't want it don't run it, but if it is a trojan a firewall can easily defeat that. If it is a virus word will spread and people will avoid it. It is like the Antivirus 2009 programs, other then being blatantly obvious viruses, don't work anymore because people know they are bad.
Coding in the name of!
Soon I'll Release my Beta version of FRENCH VANILA
(Forensic Reducing Emulator Named Coherantly and Handsomely for Very Awesome Naughty and Illicit Activities)
Fuck you, I won't code what you tell me!
Some of those who share sources
are the same that hate bosses
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