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Research In Motion is all about getting its BlackBerry smartphones distributed for fleet-use in enterprise environments. Unfortunately, that means that corporate users will have to opt for the camera-less BlackBerry 8800 series. It would be a bad day to have corporate secrets walk out the door inside some cameraphone’s flash memory.
On the one hand, nixing the camera is a good security measure. On the other hand, corporate users won’t have a camera to play with when outside the office.
So, RIM has come up with a novel interesting old-school solution to keeping those trade-secrets from ever getting their picture taken. The latest patent application from the Canadian outfit outlines a method to lock-down and disable a smartphone’s camera with the help of a key. No, it’s not some high-tech encryption key, it’s your plain-old lock-and-key system.
When the key is inserted, the handset lets you take pictures with abandon. Remove the key and… not so much. Sounds secure enough – unless the key looks like the one shown in the diagram. Let’s see if this particular patent application makes it from drawing board to real-life.
[Via: CellPassion]
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Will Park
Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...
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