Microsoft Backdoor Program: Cofee leaks onto the web

zandocomm — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:55:54 +0000

No use crying over it

By Alexandra Pullin

Monday, 9 November 2009, 14:18

MICROSOFT’S DIGITAL FORENSICS software has been spotted on a file-sharing site, available for all to download.

Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (COFEE) is a forensics tool that fits on a USB drive for the police to use in PC forensics.

The software is free to police forces around the world and helps access details about crimes such as identity theft, online fraud, child pornography and illegal filesharing before criminals can wipe the information.

It’s reportedly illegal for unauthorised people to download and use the software.

According to the Vole it takes the average bobbie “with even minimal computer experience” less than ten minutes to master the program.

“This enables the officer to take advantage of the same common digital forensics tools used by experts to gather important volatile evidence, while doing little more than simply inserting a USB device into the computer,” said Microsoft.

The Vole and police are worried that cyber criminals could analyse COFEE and write code that would identify and intercept it, securely wiping incriminating data from their hard drives.

COFEE requires Windows XP but it does have some Windows Vista support. According to company insiders, Microsoft is developing a new version of COFEE that will be released next year for Windows Vista and Windows 7. µ

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Privacy is Dead Get over it

zandocomm — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:22:45 +0000

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CNBC “Big Brother, Big Business” Recorded Nov 1, 2006

zandocomm — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:40:35 +0000

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Google privacy??

zandocomm — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 22:00:48 +0000

Well here is another good example how google is spying on your web activity this is a copy of there web activity privacy notice. Google allows you to view your back web surfing history when you access your email through the gmail. This data is only viewable to you through there gmail system. However when you first view it you will notice that allot of your weeks prior activity show-es up on it. This is quite disturbing to anyone who knows what a government can do with this kind of information if it turns fascist on its own people. Best thing to do is to complain to google about this policy and get them to TURN OFF ALL LOGGING of all users who use there system. This will benefit all parities since they will not be held liable for privacy leaks in the future.

However, as is common practice in the industry, and as outlined in the Google Privacy Policy, Google maintains a separate logs system for auditing purposes and to help us improve the quality of our services for users.

Google = Privacy Snoop Scum.

Web History Privacy Notice

Web HistoryHelpPrivacy Policy

Privacy FAQ

Web History Privacy Notice February 22, 2007

The Google Privacy Policy describes how we treat personal information when you use Google’s products and services, including information provided when you use Web History. In addition, the following describes our privacy practices that are specific to Web History.

Personal information

You need a Google Account to use Web History. Google asks for some personal information when you create a Google Account, including your email address and a password, which is used to protect your account from unauthorized access. A Google Account allows you to access many of our services that require registration.

Web History records information about the web pages you visit and your activity on Google, including your search queries, the results you click on, and the date and time of your searches in order to improve your search experience and display your web activity. Over time, the service may also use additional information about your activity on Google or other information you provide us in order to deliver a more personalized experience.

Uses Web History uses the information described above to give you a more personalized search experience. This information will be securely transmitted to Google’s servers and stored in association with your Google Account information in order to provide the service.

Your choices

You can terminate your Google Account at any time as described here.

You can choose to stop storing your web activity in Web History either temporarily or permanently, or remove items, as described in Web History Help.

You can delete information from Web History using the remove feature, and it will be removed from the service. However, as is common practice in the industry, and as outlined in the Google Privacy Policy, Google maintains a separate logs system for auditing purposes and to help us improve the quality of our services for users.

More information Google adheres to the US Safe Harbor privacy principles. For more information about the Safe Harbor framework or our registration, see the Department of Commerce’s web site.

Further information about Web History is available here.

For more information about our privacy practices, go to the full privacy policy. If you have additional questions, please contact us any time. Or write to us at:

Privacy Matters
c/o Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View CA 94043 (USA)

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