ekmi message

Subject: Microsoft COFEE

From: Arshad Noor <arshad.noor@strongauth.com>
To: Cryptography <cryptography@metzdowd.com>, dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org, ekmi <ekmi@lists.oasis-open.org>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:36:28 -0400 (EDT)

It can be "ordered to decrypt system passwords"???  So, I wonder
what attackers can do with this...

Arshad Noor
StrongAuth, Inc.

"Microsoft revealed its development of a digital forensic analysis toolkit at a security conference yesterday as part of a wider discussion of how technology can be used to fight crime. The Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor, or COFEE for short, is a USB thumb drive that contains software capable of executing approximately 150 separate commands. Once plugged in, COFEE can be ordered to decrypt system passwords, display a history of internet activity, and search the system for evidence...."

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080429-new-microsoft-law-enforcement-tool-bypasses-pc-security.html