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In other words, you can use it to encrypt and safeguard the data you store on USB memory sticks, external hard disks drives and solid-state drives, SD cards, and any other types of portable drives. 'Maybe Microsoft should spend its efforts making BitLocker more secure,' Ridder said. BitLocker To Go is a tool made by Microsoft, based on BitLocker, that allows you to encrypt removable drives. It is, of course, ironic that Microsoft has developed to workaround for its own product – proof, perhaps, that BitLocker isn't all that secure. 'You've got the original computer locked away in an evidence safe somewhere, so if someone questions the integrity of the image you can verify it against the original,' he said. The advantage of taking the computer off and making a complete image of it is integrity, he added.

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The only way to perform a full wipe that (depending on the SSD implementing it properly) will wipe everything, including spare sectors, overprovisioned areas and any sectors swapped out as part of wear leveling is to send the drive the ATA SECURE ERASE command. 'Any time you're touching a live computer you're changing it in some way,' he said. A dban zero wipe will suffice for most situations making it impossible for 'everyday people' to recover anything. One critic of the approach is Chris Ridder, a residential fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, who says COFEE's approach alters the computer. Previously, an officer might spend three or four hours digging up the information manually, but COFEE lets them do it in about 20 minutes, he said. It can be used on a computer using any type of encryption software, not just BitLocker. It can save information such as what user was logged on and for how long and what files were running at that time, Fung said. A law enforcement agent connects the USB drive to a computer at the scene of a crime and it takes a snapshot of important information on the computer. While COFEE doesn't break BitLocker or open a back door, it captures live data on the computer, which is why it's important for agents not to shut down the computer first, Fung said.

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COFEE's solution: plug in a USB drive containing the software and record. That meant a lot of valuable information was lost since police couldn't log in as the suspect when the machine was rebooted.

The old protocol was to unplug the machine and take it back to headquarters. It was created by Anthony Fung, a former Hong Kong cop and now a regional manager in Microsoft's Internet Safety and Anti-Counterfeiting group.ĬOFEE changes the basic police protocols for dealing with suspects' machines. PC World has an extensive article about Microsoft's COFEE - Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor – which some 2,000 law enforcement officers have been using since last June. Microsoft has released a tool to law enforcement that helps get around the encryption provided by the company’s own BitLocker software, distributed in Windows Vista.

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