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Puttering around with BlackBerry forensics — Part 1

By ⋅ July 22, 2011 ⋅ 7 comments

 I’m guilty of sitting on source code which I should have released a long time ago.  I make excuses to myself that I didn’t release any of it because I was waiting for someone to come along and prove to me that there was a better way of doing things.  I guess the bottom line [...]

You want the BlackBerry Event Log? beg damnit!

By ⋅ July 1, 2010 ⋅ 5 comments

It’s been quite a while since my last post.  I’ve been a bit on the busy side with work, family and a bit of research.  Inspired by a friend and fellow researcher – Cst. Shafik Punja, I decided to look deeper into BlackBerry connectivity via USB.  If I succeeded at understanding this topic, I would [...]

InputStream to ByteArray on a BlackBerry

By ⋅ January 15, 2010 ⋅ One comment

A quick and easy method to read an InputStream to a byte array is available in the IOUtilities class of the BlackBerry API.  I didn’t check if this is available pre 4.6 or not, but it does exist in 4.6 To read an InputStream directly to a byte array you can do something like this: [...]

RIM says “Would you like a password hint?”

By ⋅ January 8, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

It would appear that RIM is planning to provide end-users with a mechanism to remember their passwords.  According to patent application 20090307498, RIM proposes to allow a user to store his password with unique version data to help him remember it later.  As per the patent application, the version data will be in the form [...]

App World Dynamic Licensing HOWTO

By ⋅ December 14, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

I started releasing commercial applications on BlackBerry App World and yesterday was the first time I used the Dynamic Licensing model.  I devised a quick solution for working with Dynamic Licensing based on Google App Engine and this post shows how this can be achieved and also includes sample source code for other developers in [...]

Emulating the BlackBerry Phone Call Log Field

By ⋅ December 8, 2009 ⋅ One comment

While writing an application for the BlackBerry, I wanted to emulate the layout of the Phone Log.  Typically, this looks like a set of rows laid out in a two-column or multi-column format.  Since there was no available field to achieve this, I had to write my own.  The way I did it was to [...]

Platform specific download statistics for the BlackBerry

By ⋅ December 8, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

I looked at the statistics for the number of downloads of Kisses, that I had today.  It was interesting to see the different types of Operating System versions or Platforms that were indeed downloading the tool.  Over all, I had 3051 downloads for a period of about 6 weeks.  I started writing applications that I [...]

Mice, Permissions and a Solution?

By ⋅ November 28, 2009 ⋅ One comment

The BlackBerry default application permissions should be one of the most important things to a BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) user. But how can these application permissions be monitored and checked for those times when they are changed (creating a potentially risky situation) and the user forgets to revert to its original setting? This post will highlight a possible mechanism of checking for the most critical permissions. There’s also some sample program source code that users can download and play with.

The ‘Security Timer Reset’ permission

By ⋅ November 6, 2009 ⋅ 3 comments

Did you ever wonder what some of those Application Permissions were on your BlackBerry?  I’m putting together a paper that details the more important ones and why you should be careful in changing them.  For now, I thought I’d share some information about the “Security Timer Reset” permission and what you can do with it. [...]

Team BlackBerryForums! Fu*k Yeah!

By ⋅ November 5, 2009 ⋅ 9 comments

I’m glad I don’t take things personally.  I am also a firm believer in the phrase “no good deed goes unpunished”.  I decided to post in both the CrackBerry Forums and BlackBerryForums communities that I’d released the program called Kisses.  It would appear, however, that the fact that I had designed both PhoneSnoop and Kisses [...]

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