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Interpol plans to distribute a Microsoft DIY computer forensics tool to its 187 member countries under an agreement announced Wednesday. Cofee, short for Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor, is a thumb drive containing more than 150 investigative applications police can use to collect digital evidence at crime scenes. …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Boffin

    So when will some honest cop...

    So when will some honest cop place this tool set on the web so that it can be examined by people who can actually test & vet it properly?

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Alien

    @AC 00:12 GMT

    That will happen some where around half past never. However if the cops have a break in their schedule they may think about doing that sometime between 27 and 30:15 in the AP on Monday Mayuary 45th 2550.

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Thumb Down

    I've said it before and I'll say it again...

    Use Truecrypt.

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Joke

    In related news ...

    ... Microsoft announced its corresponding client-server application, Technical Evidence Analyser (TEA) which runs atop the desktop environment, Single-User Graphical Analysis Runtime (SUGAR).

  5. Alex Wright
    Unhappy

    Works on Macs does it?

    How about Linux? FreeBSD? Solaris?

    Or, more accurately EXT3 (4), JFS, XFS, or any of the more esoteric file systems?

    "Running Linux sir? Must have something to hide!"

  6. Rob Crawford

    The Met

    Will their USB stick come with an integrated baton, cos it would be demeaning to the officer to be seen beating people with a little ole memory stick

  7. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    @Alex Wright

    >"Running Linux sir? Must have something to hide!"

    Boston College Campus Police: "Using Prompt Commands" May Be a Sign of Criminal Activity

    http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/boston-college-prompt-commands-are-suspicious

  8. Blackadder
    Paris Hilton

    @AC 00:50 GMT

    ...and if you have your TrueCrypt protected harddrive mounted when the eh... bad guys barge in? Will they be able to open your locked windows, make a memory dump simply by inserting a USB device? How secure are you really?

  9. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    2 words

    WikiLeaks Awaits

  10. Anonymous Coward
    Happy

    @Alex...

    ..I would think so yes. After all, the first tool they would use is to mirror the drive....then give it a good whack with a baton.

    Not all MS products only work with MS, you know maybe Windows may be able to connect to Novell one day, or Unix, maybe even a printer or two....who knows....

  11. Anonymous Coward
    Unhappy

    Bitlocker

    I guess it's pointless me using Bitlocker any more. With Vista 64 on a Core i7 with 8 GB Ram and fast RAID 0 disks performance was excellent. Other products might be "compatible" with 64 vbit vista but not native 64 bit. I had no choice on the 64 bit Vista, it's all Dell ship/support with Core i7 systems.

    I'm sure some office somewhere in the world is going to lose his USB key with all this neat software on it. Unless there is access control within the toolset, it'll be on the web before the end of the year !

  12. Pyrrho Huxley

    What's New About Windows Backdoors?

    There have been backdoors in Windows for years.

    See http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/5/5263/1.html

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/437967.stm

    http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/01/nsa_helps_micro_1.html

  13. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    @Alex Wright

    "Running Linux sir? Must have something to hide!"

    More embarrassing than running Linux?

  14. Avi

    This is quite hillarious

    A forensic-evidence gathering tool from a company renown for its products not being able to read from or talk to anything else.

  15. Anonymous Coward
    Joke

    Microsoft "Security" vs Security Forces

    Let's face it, their systems are plagued by security holes.

    I'd be more surprised if they *weren't* relying on secret backdoors built into windows. Considering that it *only* works on Windows, all the evidence points that way.

    Seriousness aside though.

    Microsoft Security & Security Forces : which are the most incompetent?

    Microsoft allow hackers to steal your sensitive data. The security forces merely leave theirs lying around on trains. I'm not surprised they've teamed up.

    Now perhaps the security forces can leave *your* sensitive data lying around on trains!

  16. Anonymous Coward
    Joke

    Re: Works on Macs does it?

    Depends what you mean by 'works'. If you mean 'secretly injecting and subsequently discovering incriminating evidence of a number of crimes including proving the owner to be both Lord Lucan and Jack the Ripper onto any non-Windows machine', then yes, it works...

    Steve.

  17. Dave
    Coat

    One detective at a time

    Obviously only suitable for use by a single detective at a time because there's only one F in Cofee.

  18. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    hang on

    i think i saw this on ware-bb a while back

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  20. Richard Hebert
    Coat

    Useless in .. hmm .. 5 days

    A copy will find itself on the net soon enough , then in a few days , all their tricks

    will be known and soft spots it exploits , and within 5 days all that soft will be useless.

    Cheer up .. we're about to have a good time with that toy kit. ; )

    Ric

  21. Anonymous Coward
    Black Helicopters

    @AC 00:12 GMT

    On the web???!!!!!!

    Based on Plods Previous Performance the toolkit should be available quite soon, on a USB stick, on public transport

  22. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    RE: Iam Me

    Not to worry sooner or latter they will leave one on a train....

  23. Pyrrho Huxley
    Linux

    Backdoors in Windows? Who'd have thought....?

    There have been backdoors in Windows for years.

    See:

    http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/5/5263/1.html

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/437967.stm

    http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/01/nsa_helps_micro_1.html

  24. TimNevins

    A Nice hypothesis

    Here is a hypothesis from 2004 that discusses whether MS XP is a professional bugging device.

    Some *extremely* interesting points are raised about design decisions.

    http://100777.com/node/1120

  25. Anonymous Coward
    Happy

    @Iam Me

    Thanks for nearly making me wet myself.

  26. Anonymous Coward
    Thumb Up

    @AC 10:41 GMT

    See I totally forgot about the train angle, thanks for reminding me. In which case you're right it should show up soonish ™.

    @AC 15:10. You're welcome, I'm here to help :-).

  27. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    MS motives

    Where's the lock-in angle?

  28. Musky Octopus
    Stop

    Calm down dear, it's only a thumbdrive

    It's just a collection of already-available tools, packaged into a useful format. It's no more exciting or sinister than the Windows side of the Helix CD.

    Sorry to intrude on your paranoid fantasies.

  29. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    *This* is why I read El Reg...

    @Alex Wright

    By Anonymous Coward Posted Thursday 16th April 2009 07:44 GMT

    "Running Linux sir? Must have something to hide!"

    More embarrassing than running Linux?

    (Well, except for our dear Moderatrix's all-too-infrequent intercessions, oo-er)

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