I always like the technology and thinking behind things that are bad for computer systems. I mean, think about the coding behind the ability to infect and make thousands upon thousands of unknown machines all around the world, rise up and do your bidding. Powerful stuff indeed. Anyhow, this particular item does not do that but is fascinating nevertheless. From what I read on another site, you can use this program with an iPod (like the 80GB iPod Video), connect to the machine with the goodies and SUCK the iPod full of stuff.
The funny thing is, this is not new, just a more efficient method of doing it. When the iPod first came out, it was really geared and promoted as only a music player. I think when the 5GB model was upgraded to a 20GB, there was speculation that people would not buy it as quickly due to no having as much music to fill it so the idea of using it as a portable hard drive device grew in popularity. This use gained more momentum when the ubiquitous USB connector was added. Now one could walk up to any modern day USB-enabled computer and connect the iPod, transfer the files they wanted, disconnect and walk away without anyone ever knowing. You could do this at your workplace or, as Apple-selling stores were soon to find out, at a local retailer. Many a store had someone walk in with the innocent player on their heads, connect to the Mac of choice while supposedly demoing it, and copy over all the thousands of dollars worth of applications contained on each unit. This was before product activation license and such so all you needed was the folder where all the files where stored and you had the entire application. Slick, sweet, fast and totally illegal.
Now all of that just got slicker, sweeter, faster but still just as illegal. Just don't do it folks; use it only on files and machines you are authorized to obtain data from.
Peace.
OMG... Slurp.exe, a Trojan Horse Made for U3
The funny thing is, this is not new, just a more efficient method of doing it. When the iPod first came out, it was really geared and promoted as only a music player. I think when the 5GB model was upgraded to a 20GB, there was speculation that people would not buy it as quickly due to no having as much music to fill it so the idea of using it as a portable hard drive device grew in popularity. This use gained more momentum when the ubiquitous USB connector was added. Now one could walk up to any modern day USB-enabled computer and connect the iPod, transfer the files they wanted, disconnect and walk away without anyone ever knowing. You could do this at your workplace or, as Apple-selling stores were soon to find out, at a local retailer. Many a store had someone walk in with the innocent player on their heads, connect to the Mac of choice while supposedly demoing it, and copy over all the thousands of dollars worth of applications contained on each unit. This was before product activation license and such so all you needed was the folder where all the files where stored and you had the entire application. Slick, sweet, fast and totally illegal.
Now all of that just got slicker, sweeter, faster but still just as illegal. Just don't do it folks; use it only on files and machines you are authorized to obtain data from.
Peace.
OMG... Slurp.exe, a Trojan Horse Made for U3
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