Knowledge Base: Device Wipe Breakdown

By Thomas on Jan 20, 2009 with Comments

Filed Under: Misc. News

Our buddy Ronen over at Berry Review found this sweet knowledge base article on RIM’s site.  Basically it breaks down the different types of device wipes you can perform.  The article isn’t too new, it was posted at the beginning of December, however it is useful if you are planning to do a device wipe anytime soon.  There are 3 different types of wipes that are listed:

  • Security Wipe
  • Security Wipe including 3rd party applications
  • Factory default Wipe

It tells you everything that is or is not getting erased.  Take a look, its informative.

Go here to check out the full KB article

Overview

When the BlackBerry device permanently deletes its stored user and application data, it performs specific actions, depending on the type of device wipe performed:

Type of device wipe

Standard security wipe

Factory default wipe

with Include third party applications option turned off

with Include third party applications option turned on

Device wipe actions:

deletes user data

X

X

X

deletes corporate PIN-to-PIN encryption key

X

X

X

deletes master encryption key

X

X

X

unbinds IT policy

X

X

X

unbinds smart card

X

X

X

deletes password history

X

deletes stored BlackBerry® Mobile Data Sytem (MDS) device policy

X

deletes record of time elapsed since the BlackBerry device was last turned on

X

deletes stored IT policy

X

deletes third-party applications

X

X

overwrites BlackBerry device memory

X

X

X

performs a scrub of BlackBerry device memory if content protection is turned on

X

X

X


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