SPILLED COFFEE...who cares?

So COFFEE got leaked..is anyone surprised?

I liken this story to the fact that radar detectors exist to evade speed traps. The truth of the matter is, when you speed you're bound to get caught regardless of your knowledge of radar or laser guns and regardless of the fact that your detector is beeping. Typically by the time your detector is beeping loudly enough for you to pay attention you're already painted and are in the process of being pulled over. Many people are so convinced that COFFEE is this panacea of LE forensics capabilities that the leaking of it will spell doom and disaster for Law Enforcement everywhere. Boy will they be surprised when they learn what it's made of.

"But they'll detect it and subvert it"

Maybe they will, maybe they won't. Does it really make a difference? This is part of the game. The tool was widely released, why is this leak a shock? If the computer is the only source of evidence in a case, then you don't have that strong of a case to begin with. Even so, police raids and seizures are not exactly broadcast to the suspect. COFFEE is a meta-tool anyways, or a tool made up of tools, just like every other live toolkit. COFFEE is not magic. It's a script.

"But now that they know what it does they can prevent it from being useful"

Funny, the same was said of just about every forensics tool out there. The good guys have a toolset, just as the bad guys do. Who can use their tools more effectively?

"But but but...the sky is falling!"

No Chicken little, the sky is not falling...it's just another acorn.