COFEE, or Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor, is a set of tools and a GUI that Microsoft has created to assist undereducated law enforcement officials with basic computer forensics.

An officer with even minimal computer experience can be tutored—in less than 10 minutes—to use a pre-configured COFEE device.

This is not some wild, as-seen-on-tv, NSA creation.  It’s just a compilation of tools (about 150 or so) for information and evidence gathering.  A rootkit and some automation. Most everything included with COFEE is available, in some form, all over the internet.

They’ve included this snazzy little video to tell you all about it.

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Sadly — I doubt an ad like this one would fly in the States.

The time-line behind the Cruchpad does play out like your typical too-good-to-be-true vaporware product, but the evidence of real working prototypes and even fancy packaging have leaked into the wild making this more than some drawing board pipe-dream.  It’s real, it works and we’ve seen it.

Many seem to think that the project might be scrapped due to higher than anticipated production cost.  Arrington has stated that he wants to sell the CrunchPad as cheap as possible — initially shooting for the $200 price point, and later saying “you can sell it for $300 and probably not go out of business”.  Is cost the sticking point?  Are they worries that people won’t pay more than $300 for a tablet that won’t do anything more than surf the web?

Another popular theory is that Fusion Garage and their Linux/WebKit based browser OS may be the hitch in the giddy-up.  Perhaps with Google and their open source Chrome OS seemingly around the corner, Mike has made the decision to dump Fusion Garage and wait for the Google offering to become a reality.  This would definitely put the CrunchPad in a holding pattern, but since Google Chrome OS is bound to be very well developed and more full-featured than the Fusion Garage offering, it seems it’d be a much smarter way to go.

So, is the CrunchPad dead?  Has the project run into problem it can’t overcome or are the delays just a reflection of changes in market overall?  I for one hope to to be sitting on my couch, surfing all my favorite blogs on a  CrunchPad, or Google Tablet, in the near future.

…..Affirmative, I poked one it was dead.

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0000001 00000011 000000111 – come on sucker, lick my battery.

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A video game without the video, this electromechanical celebration of the 40th adversary of the real lunar landing is just plain cool.  If you happen to be anywhere near Southwold Pier, check it out for yourself… If you’re like me and a world away, the project page has tons of pics and technical info.  Enjoy!

TechCrunch has a full run-down on the Google Nav application that will ship with Android 2.0 (Eclair), along with a demo video.  If you couldn’t tell by the screenshot alone, this is one killer navigation app.  It includes plain English search, as you can see in the video below.  Oh yeah, & did I mention that it’s a free application to boot?  When, o’ when, will AT&T pick up some Android phones….?

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Those lucky ninjas at BGR have had their Droid in-hand long enough to post an exhaustive “preview.”  I guess it really can only be considered a preview because the unit has yet to hit retail.  I mean, they cover pretty much everything there is to know about Moto’s new handset, & even give a conclusion.  If you were ever wavering about buying one of these bad-ass handsets, you’ll be fully on-board after you read this article.

As you know over the past couple of months we have been working on the new features for WordPress 2.9. We have also been working on trying to make WordPress as secure as possible and during this process we have identified a number of security hardening changes that we thought were worth back-porting to the 2.8 branch so as to get these improvements out there and make all your sites as secure as possible.

I must be living under a rock or something, because I wasn’t even aware that Futuremark (makers of the popular PC benchmarking suite) was in the games biz.  Futuremark studios has just released their first in-game trailer for their game, Shattered Horizon, which is an FPS set in space with full range of movement via space suit jet pack type dealios.  Check out the trailer for yourself… the graphics are amazing, & the possibilities for in-space fighting and movement definitely got me drooling.

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