Okay, so this "kit" just assists people in investigations. So no security risk there, essentially MS just want it taken down like any piece of their software packages. It is possible that this wasn't leaked by MS at all, perhaps a disgruntled govt employee somewhere decided to upload it or some such...

At least the COFFEE wasn't hot...

Nope :) Seems like its mostly some old COFEE left in a pot all day long...now stone cold , usless and tastes stale.

If all the tools are readily available on the web already, why go through all this trouble to take it down? Plus, it's only tools to help catch criminals, not help them. I just don't see where the problem is.

I took quite a few computer forensics classes in school..and I find this funny because the COFEE tool suite is nothing special at all...There is certainly better products out there for forensics if you can pay for them, heck we got them free in our classes. And even funnier..as others said you can download tools that do the same thing as offered in COFEE anyways.