full-disclosure - Re: Blackberry pwd hack or reset

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Message-ID: <429216234-1275618866-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1612266063-@bda936.bisx.prod.on.blackberry>
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 02:34:33 +0000
From: jim.hewitt@...il.com
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Cc: "full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk" <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Blackberry pwd hack or reset

True: however to date I have never seen or heard of a BlackBerry password bypass or even brute force tools. 

All their apps even dev tools require the password and respect the max attempts until security wipe. 
-----Original Message-----
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2010 22:32:25 
To: Jim Hewitt<jim.hewitt@...il.com>
Cc: <james@...thwaysecurity.com>; full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk<full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Blackberry pwd hack or reset

On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:32:30 EDT, Jim Hewitt said:

> The device is FIPS -140-2 Certified and in use by every major government
> organization.

So were those "encrypted" USB flash memory sticks. Whoops. :)

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