[link|http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7085|http://www.newscient...icle.ns?id=dn7085]

Hacking an ipod boot code by getting it to play the boot code ram contents as audio, recording the audio, then converting the resulting audio samples back to binary.

Tricky.

OTOH, doing this just to run linux on an ipod smacks of idolatry. I think he should seek help.