Software that allows police and other authorities to see every site a web user has visited, and what identity they were using, has been put in the public domain.
New Scientist reports on a open-source software package called Offline Windows Analysis and Data Extraction (OWADE). It was launched at the Black Hat 2011 security conference, and can unlock files that show where PCs running the Windows operating system have been.
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