Vistaman fights crime
Holy dongles
THE VOLE SO DESPERATELY want to be seen as one of the good guys, that it's decided to come up with a digital forensic analysis tookit in USB format, to help police hunt down the baddies.
The Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor, COFEE (what, no doughnuts?), was unveiled publicly at a security conference yesterday. The tiny device purportedly lets the Boys in Blue carry out about 150 different digital crime fighting actions, including password cracking, analysis of internet history and activity, incriminating file searches and more. COFEE is especially useful in allowing investigators on the scene of a crime to gather on-the-spot computer evidence, which could be lost if the system is turned off or transported.
The diminutive crime fighting device will, apparently, help to lessen the burden on overworked digital analysts, and make the process of sifting through thousands of random files a little easier and hopefully quicker, although it doesn’t replace an eventual thorough system search.
Redmond is being a tad secretive about the full scope of the device’s abilities but, then again, we wouldn’t want criminals knowing how to cover their tracks. Or let rival companies come up with a better version.
The Seattle Times reckons that the device has been around since last June already, having already been tested by some 2,000 coppers in 15 different countries.
The Mighty Vole is currently offering COFEE for free, but it probably won't be long until Microsoft goes back to its evil ways and starts charging criminal prices. µ
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Move along now Scotland Yard...
You may re-brand your COFEE as TEA as long as you pay the Java fee.165 million cups of tea a day?
Soho Oim off to get a duo core quad London espresso, and curb me jitters.
The thing is: if you mix Bitter with your coffee, I suppose you'd have bitter coffee; but at least you wouldn't know whether you were coming or going.
Now the Irish coffee is good with the Bushmills, you no need none of that Baileys Irish Cream. Ouzo and espresso? That's just mad.
General McCaffrey Scientific Fool Award
First: You have to Meet False Blue online, then converse, then Buy, then LOSE Your Home. FFFUUUUNNNN.?Works better on porn, you needn't supply any pesky embarressing stuff.
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"Redmond is being a tad secretive about the full scope of the device’s abilities but, then again, we wouldn’t want criminals knowing how to cover their tracks."Hah! Criminals just need to use Linux, Unix, or any other non-Windows OS. We all know MS only makes stuff that only works with their own OS...
And as to being a bit secretive about the abilities is better than promising all kinds of technology for your new OS and then not delivering it, but charging top dollar for it...
--rolls eyes, takes coat and gets up to go to the pub--
Let the baddies have it!
What a great invention, if i was a baddie, i would be getting my hands on one of these, what a great way for a novice hacker to get loads of private info. Thanks Microsoft :)Yawn
"The tiny device purportedly lets the Boys in Blue carry out about 150 different digital crime fighting actions, including password cracking, analysis of internet history and activity, incriminating file searches and more."I'll bet that password cracking works much better on the LoseDoze O/S than on anything else, if at all.
Jim