helping you stay protected in the digital age

I was tipped off by a friend at, coincidentally, a coffee shop about Microsoft’s new COFEE project.

“COFEE is a USB drive that allows law enforcement to run more than 150 commands on a live computer system and save the results on the portable drive for later analysis. This preserves valuable information that could be lost if the computer had to be shut down and transported to a lab–files that are stored in active memory would otherwise be lost, for example.”

I will do some research this week when I’m finished with work on Friday and try to piece together facts and my thoughts and opinions on this as well as how it could be used with other PC “vulnerabilities” such as freezing RAM chips to bypass encryption.

~ by johndball on May 22, 2008.