Blackberry Security

Exomondo · Thread Author #1 06-18-2009, 06:54 PM

My fiance recently lost her iPhone, before this happened I made sure that everything was protected by enabling the passcode feature where in order to unlock the phone for use you have to enter a 4-digit passcode, fail that 10 times and the phone is wiped.

So that made me think I have nothing like that on my BB, if I lose it and someone gets a hold of it before the battery runs out they have all my data...is there any solution for this?

Thanks!

EDIT:

Or there is the chance that Im a complete moron and didn't think that 'password' in options would be exactly what I was looking for

...whoops

username0022 · #2 06-18-2009, 06:57 PM

There's a feature like that on BB. Go to Options>Password. Set to "Enabled" and there you go.

kaylasdad · #3 06-18-2009, 08:18 PM

Lol happens to the best of us!!!!!!!

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snowindec9 · #4 06-18-2009, 10:27 PM

I'm very protective with my berry.

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knicksfan1025 · #5 06-18-2009, 11:02 PM

Yea I always use the password protection just to make sure if anyone steals my phone they can't use it

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Exomondo · Thread Author #6 06-18-2009, 11:06 PM

It's just surprising the amount of people that use their devices as the single point of access to so many personal services yet don't protect it.

avmsam · #7 06-18-2009, 11:32 PM

if u've got a blackberry, take advantage of the security

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anoble1 · #8 08-27-2009, 03:54 PM

Hi, just recently my phone has a Passcode. I woke up one morning and there was something that said confirm. So I did it. Then it told me to enter a passcode. Well, now I tried to remove the Passcode and when I go to Passcode in my phone it wont let me get rid of it. It's grayed out. All it will let me do is change how long it requires a passcode. Goes to 1 hr.
There a patch for this?

mookish · #9 08-27-2009, 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by anoble1

Hi, just recently my phone has a Passcode. I woke up one morning and there was something that said confirm. So I did it. Then it told me to enter a passcode. Well, now I tried to remove the Passcode and when I go to Passcode in my phone it wont let me get rid of it. It's grayed out. All it will let me do is change how long it requires a passcode. Goes to 1 hr.
There a patch for this?

Sounds like a BES policy. If you're on BES, they will require a password to protect their sensitive data.