But that doesn’t mean that Microsoft produced anything new or spectatular. The same set of tools can be found in Helix forensic CD or several oter toolkits - when looking at open platforms and known standards, the tools are already outhere - and they are mostly free.

What Microsoft could have done to empower government officials (FBI, DEA etc) is to produce tools that employ backdoors into their systems to achieve certain forensic actions at a faster rate. But this would be a very dangerous road to tread on - since any such back door will become public domain knowledge before long, and then MS will be deemed extremely insecure - once again

Bozidar Spirovski
http://www.shortinfosec.net

I concede that your are probably right. The exploit functions are the functions that permit for cracking passwords, reading memory contents, etc. via the USB port on a running machine, and I don’t know how much of that functionality is on the device.

I am trying to get more detailed information and I will pass that on (with corrections to my post of course ) as I am able to get it.

Thanks for your comment.
Erik

I’d expect the commands on the key to be forensics tools like you see on some of the bootable Linux forensics distributions which help an investigator gather information from a potential target machine.