Originally posted by: alkemyst
Originally posted by: Saga
Doubtful. Any company with a BES admin worth half the normal salary would have the IT policy password protection enabled. I seriously doubt you'll be access any information on the device. Nice thought, but if it's a corporate device I find this very unlikely.
actually with many BB's I have seen in the wild it's rare people use a password. It's considered something always in one's possession, like a passcard or key to the building.
My biggest question is why doesn't the OP take it in and what's with the other poster above encouraging to still sell it for parts.
Color me both amused, and curious. How frequently do you deal with this situation, specifically, to make an assumption such as this? Not only is the FIRST rule of thumb for any corporate device to secure it from data loss du to either theft or losing the device by mandatory password protection, it's absolutely included in BES best practices from RIM itself.
I'm a consultant that deals almost solely in the BES management field currently, and have running contracts with about thirty companies providing support directly to their BES and Exchange environments. I've installed probably a few hundred BES servers ranging from small (10-15 people) to 5000+ user Enterprise applications (which are a nightmare btw, especially in multiple Exchange server and domain tree environments..).
The girlfriend I currently live with works for Sprint's dedicated Blackberry Technical support, and she is almost on the polar opposite of the spectrum dealing probably 75% or more with consumer level blackberries on a daily basis. I just interrupted her reading to ask her an offhand question of, "Hey, how often is a Blackberry password protected when you need to work on one?" and she simply said, "Most - usually a big hastle as working on them in any way is almost a mandatory wipe if you are not supporting the user directly".
Not to toot my own horn or anything, but thats a whole lot of experience with Blackberry devices from the seven thousand series onwards spanning some five+ years now that would beg to differ that a Blackberry without a password is a retarded non-security conscious user absolutely begging to lose something important.
Just my two cents. Whatever.
