Microsoft Issues Takedown Notices Over COFEE 69
Eugen tips news that Microsoft has sent DMCA takedown notices to several websites to stop them from offering the Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (COFEE) tool for download after it was leaked earlier this month. One of the sites, Cryptome.org, has posted their correspondence with Microsoft over the software. "... Microsoft contacted Network Solutions, which hosts Cryptome, and since John Young, the owner of the website, wasn't too keen on losing his whole website for the sake of a single 15MB file, he removed the download link and sent Network Solutions a notice of compliance."
Can't stop the signal (Score:5, Informative)
Everything goes somewhere, and I go everywhere.
Once something is leaked you can take down all the websites you want, but you won't stop P2P Sharing.
Still available on TPB.... (Score:5, Informative)
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5156601 [thepiratebay.org]
Re:Links Still Live (Score:5, Informative)
Check the file contents. The only thing in the zip file is the takedown notice.
Re:CRYPTOME? (Score:2, Informative)
Like the globe, Cryptome got the COFEE files from Torrent and wanted to see what Microsoft and Netsol would do when the copyfilth snoopfest was offered on a plain-sight website easily targeted. It's been several years since the last takedown notice for Cryptome, none since being hosted on Netsol. There's the result: snarf COFEE.
No, the material was not returned to MS, nor was it asked for, nor for log files, nor has MS apologized for Windows being so bloated, unstable, insecure and riddled with backholes for use by TLAs.
COFEE is a diversion and another example of the complicity ingrained in giant corps to aid official and commercial spying through browsers, ftp, http, faulty crypto, leaky data farms, telecomm splitters, juicy NDA contracts and grants to non-profits, internet nodes, not to say OSs, cells, i-pods, household appliances, e-games, porn sites, anything digital missing from this list.
Honestly, aping this noble forum, Cryptome's only purpose is to disinfo slight resistance to the tsunami of edu, com, gov, mil, intel kind.
Available on Freenet (Score:2, Informative)
COFEE is available on Freenet, as are most things like this.
Freenet is very usable at the moment. Speeds are pretty good considering the constraints of encryption and anonymity, and there is a lot of filesharing going on.
huh? (Score:2, Informative)
Unlike ECHELON listening posts, Dick Cheney's Secret Bunker, the names of MI5 Moles in the IRA, CIA internal memos and the like, Coffee is a copyrighted work which falls under DMCA law, which all registrars must respect.
None of which you listed falls under any laws that would prevent their distribution. If someone stumbles upon some intelligence, there is no law preventing someone from disclosing that intelligence, even classified intelligence if you are a civilian.