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Originally posted by andrey
But seriously, from what I've read it's not interesting at all. Just a few programs thrown together on an USB stick to collect very basic data from a PC.
Yeah, I dunno why it would be so sought-after... I doubt it takes advantage of any secret backdoors in Windows.
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"It's a rather straightforward tool and it uses a lot of off-the-shelf technology already," said Richard Boscovich, a senior attorney for Microsoft's World Wide Internet Security Program.
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Tim Cranton, the company associate general counsel, said in an e-mail statement that "COFEE does not circumvent Windows Vista BitLocker encryption or undermine any protections in Windows through secret 'backdoors' or other undocumented means."
I guess the fact that it was developed by Microsoft and had a bunch of news articles written about it got people interested.
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