Wired Blogs points out to a possibility of potential identity theft attack when your Ipod is stolen or lost. The person who steals/finds your ipod gets an opportunity to kickstart an identity theft campaign if they want to. Your ipod just handed to them your full name and your email address. This tool could be easily misused, in many number of ways, to launch an identity theft attack. This possibility and the easiness with which this embedded information can be spoofed makes an itunes user vulnerable. I just hope that Apple takes a second look on this “embedding mechanism” and comes up with something better.
“There’s absolutely no reason that it had to be embedded, unencrypted and in the clear,” said Fred von Lohmann, a senior intellectual property attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. “Some of the privacy problems, in light of this, is that anyone who steals an iPod that includes purchased iTunes music will now have the name and e-mail address of its rightful owner.”
