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."

Comments

Re:I don't get it.

[JanneM]

People like yourself are going to get all our music players, phones and every other damn thing confiscated by some personnel drone when we enter any corporate building.

If the security management has determined that something like a portable harddrive is not an acceptable thing to bring inside, then neither should any other such item. How is pointing that out bad?

If you want to attack something, then attack the reasoning behind forbidding such items in the first place. And yes, such regulations are sometimes wildly overused, but in other places (company R&D or design departments, for instance) perfectly reasonable. And if you want to make a point like "but you could just send the data out as an e-mail attachement!", then I hope information security is already filtering outgoing email and stopping binary attachements.

Good The Corporation Should Perish

[GlennYaHeard]

Let the data be stolen, it should be public anyway. Yay Socialism