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Posted: 2004-07-13 14:27
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Apart from songs the elegant iPod can store goverment secrets, so the ministry of defence in Britain does not allow the employees to use in their offices the popular device iPod as much as other portable storage devices with the fear growing of stealing important documents.

"With the USB devices you can connect straight into a computer and by-pass passwords and gain entry to the system" Peter Darden of RAF said.

He also mentioned that the ministry of defence took this measure once they started use Windows XP which is very friendly for users.

In a survey among 200 middle and large size companies in Britain, 82% claim that portable "jukeboxes" are a threat for security.


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Posted: 2004-07-13 23:26
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Heh I just read that in our paper here.. same story different name as it always has been with any sort of portable information device.

I'm surprised we haven't seen "(Blah) names SmartPhones worst threat to (national/corporate/lil billys online adventures in undernet posing as an 18/f/cali beauty) security to date" ..


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Posted: 2004-07-14 00:05
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Lol

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