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Beware the iPod 'slurping' Employee

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the someone-out-there-is-going-to-outlaw-ipods-now dept.

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."

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  1. Oops by Luigi30 · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  2. Thanks Abe by Mrs.+Grundy · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  3. Unofficially called... by Oyume · · Score: 5, Funny

    iSuck

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

  4. Re:Just plug it in? by AngryMuppet · · Score: 5, Funny
    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!
  5. My iPod Christmas miracle by VampireByte · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  6. Re:Store analogy was terribly naive ... by grolschie · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  7. Re:Oh! by The+Ultimate+Fartkno · · Score: 5, Funny

    "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."