Ethics of spilled COFEE

November 8th, 2009 admin

Last year Microsoft released a tool called COFEE (Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor) to law enforcement agencies around the nation and around the world a couple of years ago .


Originally posted on McKeay

 
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