Posted on 04/29/2008 9:31:07 PM PDT by familyop
The growing use of encryption software -- like Microsoft's own BitLocker -- by cyber criminals has led Microsoft to develop a set of tools that law enforcement agents can use to get around the software, executives at the company said...Microsoft first released the toolset, called the Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (COFEE)...Microsoft gives the software to agents for free.
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Simple.
Don’t use Micro$hit’s encryption.
Microsoft can KMA.
Bitlocker is only good to protect info on a laptop from theives.
As it is, the tools in this story are only good for extracting keys from computers that are running and logged into the encrypted volume.
Still, I wouldn’t put it past MS to engineer a backdoor into their encryption technologies.
Snort has been performing similar functions for years. But, you fools will jump all over Microsoft for doing essentially the same thing.
Guess what? Once somebody has posession of your computer, it’s not your computer anymore. Computer “journalists” have definately been reduced to selling clicks.
Quite so. I meant "PGP" in its generic sense, which includes everything derived from Phil Zimmerman's work in the 90's. PGP Corporation is only one such (commercial) vendor.
I use GnuPG on my Mac, Linux, and Unix systems. I use PGP Corp's products on my Windows and Mac systems. They all play pretty nice together.
I find that GnuPG's OpenPGP integration with Mozilla Thunderbird for email is far superior to any of PGP Corp's email-savvy products, but that's just my own experience.
They ALWAYS have. Microsoft has yet to produce any product with encryption that did NOT have a backdoor for the cops, or anyone sufficiently motivated to steal the tool from a cop.
Microsoft has ALWAYS puts backdoors in their products. It's what they do. Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly. Microsoft writes code with backdoors.
Which wouldn't be so bad, except that they don't make the backdoors secure either.
"Microsoft -- a criminal's best friend in the business."
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