DECAF no stunt developer says – DECAF 2 launched

DECAF has returned, and COFEE is not the only forensic set that it will monitor. After the first version of DECAF was pulled on December 18, with a notice that it was all a “stunt” and anyone who downloaded the software discovered it wasn’t working. Now it’s back, with new features, and an explanation as to why it was really pulled. Legal fears.

First, DECAF was not fake, the tool worked. Still, the mass media ran wild, and the big focus was not on the tool, but how, “hackers are helping criminals”. The sad thing is most of the articles were written by some who never bothered to test DECAF in the first place.

One notable podcast, Cyberspeak, went so far as to ask that DECAF be taken down because “it is gaining more attention, not from law enforcement, but from the bad guys.” A few days later, DECAF was gone. The site explained that, “We hope that as you realize this was a stunt to raise awareness for security and the need for better forensic tools that you would reconsider cutting corners on corporate security.”