Beware the iPod 'slurping' Employee

Zoner12 writes "CNet is reporting that Abe Usher has created an application that allows an iPod to scan corporate networks for files likely to contain sensitive business data and download them, potentially stealing 100 megabytes in a few minutes. An insider threat would only need to plug the iPod into a computer's USB port."

Oops

[Luigi30]

Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. Sorry, my iPod slurped the story.

Thanks Abe

[Mrs. Grundy]

We can all give Abe Usher the bird for offering management a reason to prohibit iPods a work. Thanks Abe--you're off my Christmas Card list.

heh

[bLindmOnkey]

iSpy

Re:Oops

[PC-PHIX]

Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. Sorry, my iPod slurped the story.
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Perhaps for this article you meant 404 or 410, or perhaps we need

416 Content 'slurped' by iPod

Unofficially called...

[Oyume]

iSuck

Thank you, I'll be here all week!
Jds

Quick...

[mrhandstand]

/. the download site!!! If we crush the site and burnup the download bandwidth, I'll be able to keep using my iPod at work! Oh wait....

Re:Just plug it in?

[Wisgary]

iThe iWord iPod iIs iJust iAs iCool iAs iThis.

How to do it (nothing new)

[Anonymous Coward]

This is nothing new whatsoever.

Back in high school, I used a floppy and a couple batch files to grab .pwl files off the Windows 98 boxes for cracking at home.

Man, I wish I knew it was called "pod-slurping" back then, I would have been WAYYYY cooler.

Re:Just plug it in?

[AngryMuppet]

Also, why the hell does everything have to have "pod" in the name? Now it's cool? Why can't people coin cool terms anymore??

We're being overrun by pod people!

Re:Business data?

[__aaclcg7560]

What I would consider much more useful is an application that can hunt .avi, .mpg and .mp3 files across the network and 'slurp' them back to my iPod.

An application that does the opposite would probably be better: transparently offloading illegal .avi, .mpg and .mp3 from the iPod to a specific computer. An anonymous phone call to the local authorities to take a look at the computer would finish the job. Wouldn't be the first time that some high-ranking company official got caught with kiddie porn on their computer.

Where do I get a 100mb Ipod?

[ip_freely_2000]

I can use more disk space so I can watch Ashlee Simpson videos while I slurp data off the corporate network.

CNET and Abe conspire to keep my iPod away.....

[Alpha_Traveller]

...from work...But *I* have created an application that prevents sensationalist articles by CNET and applications written by Abe Usher from being run or seen on my employers network! SO THERE!

My iPod Christmas miracle

[VampireByte]

Two employers ago, the company's president walked by my desk and noticed I was listening to an iPod. The song playing at that moment was "Cake and Sodomy" by Marilyn Manson, which was unfortunate because the gentleman picked up my iPod to look at it before I had a chance to change to a song with a less offensive title. As he picked it up he said "I just bought one of these for my son for Christmas" and then I noticed the shock in his eyes when he saw the words on the LCD screen... then he said "Hmmm" and sat the iPod back on my desk and walked away without saying another word.

A few weeks later, after the Christmas holiday, I saw the president and asked if his son liked his iPod. He said "I decided to return it and got him something else." At first I felt like a heel because I probably caused him to go home and dig through his children's CD collections, confiscate those not meeting his approval and give them a stern lecture. But then it occurred to me that his kids are rich brats and I might have caused them some grief! Buwah hahaha! I felt so happy when I chose to Think Different.

Thanks Apple, your iPod filled me with holiday cheer.

Re:Send it out as a ternary attachment

[mikiN]

A locked screendoor will not stop a burglar - but it will stop your nosy neighbour just walking into your kitchen or your children to walk outside.

Gosh no..heaven forbid!! Your neighbour could actually come in and say 'Hi!' to your kids! Your kids could actually go outside and see for themselves what Nature really looks like instead of watching Cartoon Channel. The horror!

People, if some of you really get off on living in a 'war zone' 24/7 where you can trust nobody, please do, but I'm outta here.

Re:Store analogy was terribly naive ...

[grolschie]

Way to ruin a good joke dude. Who brought you along?

Re:Locked Down USB Ports!

[whitehatlurker]

I just http mailed things to myself.

Hey, information wants to be free. I mail things to the competition.

Now, I only use the computers of cow-orkers I dislike, but it's the thought that counts.

Oh!

[cgenman]

Oh, SLURPing!

I thought the story was about LARPing. That would have been much more terrifying.

Re:In other news...

[shmlco]

And in other news, Harrison Ford had this to say: "See! All the geeks laughed at the iPod bit in Firewall, but we knew what we were doing!"

Quit it!

[ducttapekz]

Are you trying to make my workplace ban my iPod? Cut it the hell out.

Re:Oh!

[The Ultimate Fartkno]

"Sir? I think Johnson's up to something."

"Johnson? That weirdo down in IT? I *knew* he was trouble when he brought that shiny, new iPod in here! What's he doing? Slurping our corporate data?!"

"Erm, no. He put on a cloak and wizard hat, and now he's chasing Shelley the intern around the server room yelling 'lightning bolt! lightning bolt!'"

"Sweet Jesus... this is worse than the time we found out we had a furry in accounting. Fetch my pith helmet and tranquilizer gun."

Re:Store analogy was terribly naive ...

[pyrrhonist]

For your reference points, here is Steve Jobs' (please mod me up for that topical example) bank account number, and here is mine. Copy the contents of one to the other. I'm not after the money (tis Karma I crave) so feel free to copy in either direction.

I tried to copy all your money to Steve Jobs, but his bank refused to, "fiddle with small change". Bastards. :(