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February 16, 2006 11:40 AM PST

Quote of the day: 'Pod slurping' the business in two minutes

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A U.S. security expert who devised a "pod-slurping" application that can quickly fill an iPod with business-critical is urging companies to address the very real threat of data theft.

"This is a growing area of concern, and there's not a lot of awareness about it," Abe Usher said. "And yet in two minutes, it's possible to extract about 100MB of Word, Excel, PDF files--basically anything which might contain business data--and with a 60GB iPod, you could probably have every business document in a medium-size firm."

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