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Need help cracking a password or just getting around it on Blackberrys.

Had a pal of mine die in car accident the other day.

His company has approached me because they need the passwords cracked on his laptop and blackberry to get the info off.

Although the laptop and blackberry are pretty scratched and battered they are working. I have got the info off the laptop. Just the blackberry gives you 10 tries. What happens after I don't know.

Anyway to get around this?
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what information, exactly?... mail should be on the company's server...

if the phone was synced with his laptop, you just need to connect it...... unless it's battery ran to flat... in which case... good luck :/

i'm still puzzled as to what information they'd get off the phone they can't source elsewhere... contact numbers?
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Yeah, I'm damn sure an admin can reset a password for a phone from within BES.
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I did connect the berry to laptop, but nothing.

I don't know actually what they want off it. All emails are on the laptop. So I guess just contacts and photos (He works for a company that designs and builds golf courses, so I guess the photos have historical importance)

Unless they just want to keep using the berry. In which case I heard you just enter 10 incorrect entries and the phone wipes everything out and it starts a fresh. Ready for the next user.
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jamin_za wrote:an admin can reset a password for a phone from within BES.
not if content protection was enabled, (via policy or user).

RIM doesn't use escrow keys... encryption is local to the unit and, once the password is gone, the hassle of breaking the decryption has to be weighed against the effort involved in acquiring the information elsewhere...

as to the photos, remove the data card and plug it into a reader... no reason you need to use the phone - unless content protection was enabled :twisted:

you can wipe the unit from the BES server as well...
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http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/10/ ... gle+Reader
Russian Software Company Says Its App Can Crack BlackBerry Security
Posted by timothy on Sunday October 02, @12:25PM
from the put-down-that-wrench dept.

"Russian security software vendor Elcomsoft has released an app that it claims can determine BlackBerry handheld passwords. The software supposedly hacks the BlackBerry password via an advanced handheld security setting that's meant to encrypt data stored on a user's memory card. And a hacker doesn't even need to have the BlackBerry to determine a password, just the media card."
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