“Similar to the way the personal computer became common in the home in the ’80s and ’90s, the iPod is becoming common today,” Dr. Marcus Rogers, a cybercrime expert at Purdue University’s Center for Education and Research in Information and Security, in West Lafayette, Ind., wrote in a recent report, “iPod Forensics.” This growing popularity, Rogers continued, “has allowed a criminal element to find ‘alternative’ uses for a seemingly harmless device, and the Apple iPod is finding its way into the criminal’s bag of tricks.”
