This is silly -- it's so much easier to carry a small USB storage device and type "xcopy" or drag/drop folders than to use a big iPod.

Comments 8:26:15 PM    

Dubbing the practice "pod slurping," [security consultant Abe] Usher created a proof-of-concept application that runs from an iPod that, when the device is connected to a PC, will sniff through a PC's hard drive to find and copy all the Microsoft Office documents it finds.

"An unauthorized visitor shows up after work hours disguised as a janitor and carrying an iPod (or similar portable storage device)," posited Usher. "He walks from computer to computer and 'slurps' up all of the Microsoft Office files from each system.

"Within an hour he has acquired 20,000 files from over a dozen workstations. He returns home and uploads the files from his iPod to his PC. Using his handy desktop search program, he quickly finds the proprietary information that he was looking for."

Comments 7:28:09 AM    

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