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[Turk4n]

Microsoft | Microsoft device helps police pluck evidence from cyberscene of crime | Seattle Times Newspaper
Enough said, hope you enjoy the read :)

P.S - OLD news just wanted to drop it here just incase !

[Natrobius]

That's actually pretty cool, as I am all about enforcing the law in the cyber world as well as the real one.

[Turk4n]

Natrobius said:

That's actually pretty cool, as I am all about enforcing the law in the cyber world as well as the real one.

The application is kinda fail...

[Guest]

WHAT IF:
Someone committed a computer crime on purpose, so the police would scan their computer with the thumb drive. The criminal had a program on his/her computer that would automatically copy the thumb drive and upload it to FTP servers all over the world. Then a bunch of criminals start to commit crimes with their new super thumb drives!

[BlaineSch]

That's what I wanna know. I want to see what these thumbdrives do. It says it gets Internet history, but besides my bookmarks my history is cleared everytime I close Firefox or every 1 day, whichever comes first.

It decrypts passwords? But for which applications? I don't save internet passwords, I know Trillian saved passwords locally with a easy to crack encryption. I am sure other useless programs as well.

What if I store things on another drive can it find those? Or does it just try and use the default locations in the C drive?

[WingedPanther]

I wonder how useful it is when you plug it into a Mac or Linux box.

[Guest]

It is made by Microsoft, so it is probably not useful at all.

[ZekeDragon]

WingedPanther said:

I wonder how useful it is when you plug it into a Mac or Linux box.

I had the exact same question. :)

What if it's an even more obscure OS: Solaris, FreeBSD, etc.?

[Turk4n]

Guest said:

WHAT IF:
Someone committed a computer crime on purpose, so the police would scan their computer with the thumb drive. The criminal had a program on his/her computer that would automatically copy the thumb drive and upload it to FTP servers all over the world. Then a bunch of criminals start to commit crimes with their new super thumb drives!

Might happen, as technology evolves, so does the crimes...

BlaineSch said:

That's what I wanna know. I want to see what these thumbdrives do. It says it gets Internet history, but besides my bookmarks my history is cleared everytime I close Firefox or every 1 day, whichever comes first.

It decrypts passwords? But for which applications? I don't save internet passwords, I know Trillian saved passwords locally with a easy to crack encryption. I am sure other useless programs as well.

What if I store things on another drive can it find those? Or does it just try and use the default locations in the C drive?

You choose :>

WingedPanther said:

I wonder how useful it is when you plug it into a Mac or Linux box.

Does not compute :) I know, I have tried...

Guest said:

It is made by Microsoft, so it is probably not useful at all.

Makes sense :)

ZekeDragon said:

I had the exact same question. :)

What if it's an even more obscure OS: Solaris, FreeBSD, etc.?

Or even Haiku or Plan9 or even nothing !
Well I can say it won't work without .net framework so lol :D

[BlaineSch]

If anybody gets a copy of this, kudos to them! and you better share ****it! :P

[Turk4n]

BlaineSch said:

If anybody gets a copy of this, kudos to them! and you better share ****it! :P

Maybe...