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Easier computer searches with Microsoft's COFEE (Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor)

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

I obviously missed the first story on this: Microsoft has created a USB based device for forensic searching of computers at the scene where they are found to copy information from them. It is called COFEE for Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor, and it is provided to law enforcement agencies for free. [And how long before police officers use it for personal investigations?] See Seattle-Times: Microsoft device helps police pluck evidence from cyberscene of crime: Microsoft has developed a small plug-in device that investigators can use to quickly extract forensic data from computers that may have been used in crimes. The COFEE, which stands for Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor, is a USB "thumb drive" that was quietly distributed to a handful of law-enforcement agencies last June...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on June 11, 2008 (boomark / email).