Security: Protect yourself from COFEE with some DECAF
If they are after bad guys great - I have no problem with that. Where there is a problem is at airports when gov't and TSA think they have a right to search any ones computers without reason. So in that case cheers to the DECAF but better yet, use Linux and the many high level encryption programs out there to secure your data. Likewise Ironkey USB is another option.
Protect yourself from COFEE with some DECAF
In response to Microsoft's Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (COFEE), which helps law enforcement officials grab data from password protected or encrypted sources, two developers have created "Detect and Eliminate Computer Assisted Forensics" (DECAF), a counter intelligence tool designed to thwart the Microsoft forensic toolkit. DECAF monitors the computer its running on for any signs that COFEE is operating on the machine and does everything it can to stop it.
Read more at arstechnica.com
Leave a comment