LXer: Nowhere to hide: Forensic tool moves to Linux

LXer · 03-27-2009, 09:41 PM

Published at LXer:

Linux'ers who thought they had erased all traces of their latest Ponzi scheme, beware: MacForensicsLab's desktop forensic tool has moved to Linux. Designed to help law enforcement, E-Discovery, and IT professionals quickly extract suspect information, version 2.1 of MacLockPick now runs on Linux, says the company.

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brianL · 03-28-2009, 06:57 AM

How is that any different to or better than Sleuthkit?

easuter · 03-29-2009, 05:38 AM

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Originally Posted by brianL

How is that any different to or better than Sleuthkit?

Pretty GUI?

Anyway, I would imagine that anyone that really wanted to protect their data would just encrypt their drives.

H_TeXMeX_H · 03-29-2009, 09:17 AM

How is it different or better than foremost (Originally developed by the United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations and The Center for Information Systems Security Studies and Research) ?

Nowhere to hide ? BS, I got DBAN.

XavierP · 03-29-2009, 10:59 AM

As we see every day here, people like to use tools that they are used to. An application has just extended it's user base, probably in line with requests from it's users. Surely that is a Good Thing(TM)?