The security risk posed by pod slurping was first recognised in 2005, when Abe Usher, an expert working for the US security consultancy Sharp Ideas, devised a copying program called slurp.exe, which was used to demonstrate the concept. Usher showed that it was possible to extract about 100MB of business data in as little as two minutes, claiming that a 60GB iPod had the potential to store every business document from a medium-sized company.