Bet you didn’t know Microsoft was enabling an invasion of your privacy by making your computer less secure. Aside from their usual, sloppy coding, of course.
Hackers have released an application designed to thwart a Microsoft-packaged forensic toolkit used by law enforcement agencies to examine a suspect’s hard drive during a raid.
The hacker tool, dubbed Decaf, is designed to counteract the Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor, aka Cofee. The latter is a suite of 150 bundled, off-the-shelf forensic tools that run from a script. Microsoft combined the programs into a portable tool that can be used by law enforcement agents in the field before they bring a computer back to their forensic lab. The script runs on a USB stick that agents plug into the machine.
The tools scan files and gather information about activities performed on the machine, such as where the user surfed on the internet or what files were downloaded.
The real question is why is there any crime at all if there is a bug up everyone’s ass. Wink, wink, nod, nod.
15 -Special Ed: That is so disgusting. But I wonder who she gets to shave her vagina? What? That’s her navel????
14 -Troublemaker : Enjoy your naivete.
TrueCrypt is secure and easy to use. Plus, its 100% free!
#20, but which ones were defeated first?
Hmm, that would have been a fully patched and updated mac.
There are ways around TrueCrypt so don’t think it will protect you.
Presumably they have a warrant if they are entering your house with a thumb drive. If someone has physical access to your computer, they can hack in.
#25:
If you use a simple password, of course any brute force attempt will succeed. If every computing resource was dedicated to brute forcing my 20 character (considered short) case-sensitive, letters, numbers, specials, it would take longer than the life of the universe.
TrueCrypt cannot be “hacked” or decrypted with the password or key file. It’s not possible.
Damn it…meant to say:
TrueCrypt cannot be “hacked” or decrypted *without* the password or key file.
lol at people that say so glad I am on a MAC maybe you should read pwn2own contest information in the last 3 years or so MAC OSX has been the first to get broken into… so much for the glad I am on a mac statement lol so much for xof’s post
also now in 2010 they have broken 2048 bit encryption so even TrueCrypt can be broken if someone wanted to bad enough and look at Verisign it even got broken with 200 PS3′s in a cluster server environment even though it is true that no ordinary user would have 200 PS3′s around lol