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Dangerous Pod Slurping
Jun 24 2005, 9:19am EST | by Luigi Lugmayr
Companies, switch of all USB ports on your PCs, Pod slurping is apparently thriving.
The analysts at Gartner warn companies from iPods being used by data thieves. For example a thieve disguised as a janitor could walk into a company wearing an iPod grooving to the music. When nobody is looking he connects the iPod to a PC and
copies all the files he can get onto the portable device. Definitly dangerous, but why give it a funny name - Pod slurping.
In many places you anyway might not get through the metal detectors with an iPod anyway.
More details on Yahoo (via Gear Live).
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Luigi Lugmayr
Luigi is the founding chief Editor of I4U News and brings over 15 years
experience in the technology field to the ever evolving and exciting
world of gadgets. He started I4U News back in 2000 and evolved it into
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Luigi can be contacted directly at ml@i4u.com. Luigi posts regularly on LuigiMe.com about his experience running I4U.
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