Simon

Cumbria

IT

Someone change the record please, it's getting old hat to put iPod in the title just because it's the 'cool gasget du-jour'. The article is absolutely nothing about iPods, but about storage devices in general (as is acknowledged if you get as far as the second paragraph.

As a previous comment points out, there are many, many way to get data out of a system - and perhaps the best way to prevent it is to restrict access appropriately. Yes, a salesperson may need to use a client database daily, but they shouldn't need to be able to copy the file holding the data.

And contrary to what some people would tell us when trying to sell their latest snake oil, oops, security product, if you can't trust your staff ...