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Self Destruct the Fuzz's Software to get them off your Case
Ricardo Trejo
The feds have tools to dig up your information should you ever do anything, y'know, illegal. COFFEE - an anagram for Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor - is a suite of about 150 forensic tools, provided by Microsoft on a USB thumb drive, which is used to collect digital evidence; your history, temporary files, and other sensitive stuff you don't want people looking at - like all that loli hentai stuff you keep in a hidden folder... you sick perv.
Well, fear no more, as a couple of developers have come up with a countermeasure to fight off COFFEE infested PC's. Introducing DECAF - a light weight program that deals with these peering applications by deleting temporary files, disabling USB drives, and even going as far as spoofing MAC addresses. But before you start asking where you can go and get your hands on it, there's something the creators would like to say about their project, whose motives are more idealistic than criminal:
"We want to promote a healthy unrestricted free flow of internet traffic and show why law enforcement should not solely rely on Microsoft to automate their intelligent evidence finding."
The software is out there, somewhere, but it's source code is being withheld to make sure no one uses it for the wrong reasons and do anything, gasp, illegal.
[Wired, TheRegister - Photo by JimForest]
