RE: Re[4]: Why iPods at Work are bad...

["Todd Towles" <toddtowles () brookshires com>]

Perrie wrote:
> The master boot record being, usually, around 512 bytes, it 
> would be pretty crowded down there if every deleted or 
> undeleted files had any link to it ;-)
>
> TT> No tool exist to "wipe" a iPod, so what is on your CFO's iPod??
>
> Well, there isn't a tool that has a single big red button 
> where "wipe my iPod" is written. But wiping an iPod with the 
> usual set of tools isn't more a problem than wiping any other 
> USB mass storage device.

I assumed that, but of course I don't have one...so I could be missing
something simple. So could all the free data recovery tools on the
internet be used to pull files on a deleted iPod? GetDataBack, etc.

> Since Apple performs/suggests frequent firmware updates, data 
> about the device that performed the update could conceivably 
> be embedded in the data that is flashed.

Good point. On the other side,  I head that Windows holds a lot of USB
information deep in the registry.
 
> One point worth considering when one talks about wiping data 
> in an iPod is its eventual reliance on some partioning 
> information during the boot process. For example, while most 
> digital cameras can use and format memory cards that have 
> been zeroed from beginning to end,
>
> - some Minolta would hang if there was no partition table
> - most FAT-16 camera were not only unable to use but also 
> unable to repartition/reformat FAT-32 media.

Nothing a SD/CF reader for your PC can't handle ;)

-Todd

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