Sharp Ideas

Pod slurping howto

slurp version 2.0 (slurp lite)
by Abe Usher

Purpose:
To create a proof-of-concept application that copies office documents from a Windows computer to an iPod (or other removable storage device). The point of this exercise is to demonstrate (quantitatively) how quickly data theft can occur with removable storage devices.

Method:
I wrote a short application that searches for the "C:Documents and Settings" directory on a Windows computer. It then recurses through all of the subdirectories, copying all of the documents (*.doc, *.xls, *.htm, *.url, *.pdf, etc.) to the directory that it is running from.


FAQ:
(1) How do I get this thing up and running?

Step 0
Stop the iPod Service in Windows (if iPod software is installed and running).

Step 1
Unzip slurplite.zip

Step 2
Copy the entire "slurp" directory to your removable storage device (iPod, external hard drive, etc.)

Step 3
Run the application file "slurplite.exe" and watch it copy files.


(2) My copy of slurplite.exe doesn't work. What happened?
What did you do?! Just kidding. You probably didn't unzip the library files that come with slurp. Slurp needs all of these files in the same directory that it runs from or it won't work.

(3) I want to run slurp on a linux computer. What do I do?

Write your own application. Slurp.exe is windows only at this point.