Ministry of Defense worried that Apple's portable music player, with its large storage capacity, could be used by spies.
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I've also noticed a lot of the headlines for the articles are way off base. Me thinks this place has become a waste o' time.
Bob Hail
How easy would it be for your trusted employee (i'm sure they are all good and law abiding) to lose their ipod or any other media device for that matter (camera, usb thumb drive, cd etc) in the seat of a taxi and bang goes your information without your trusted employee having done anything malicious.
it is about human error, stop being so shortsighted and cynical!!
- Just another pile of dog plog
- by July 14, 2004 4:59 PM PDT
- designed to undermine the fabulous success of the iPod. Who in their right mind wouldn't take music over the military morbidity anyway! it really is time to write them of for Olympic competitions. Besides it hasn't happened so they should strengthened their weaknesses before exercising their odascious rights to deny the innocent. Have they banned Airplanes yet! Stop the bums not the iPod. What next the dark ages? If so who is the criminal
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