I would look at either making the source code available to the forensics community, or pivot and release a program geared towards forensics.
There is a market for tools to pull data off mobile devices. Currently its somewhat fragmented with a lot of players, but (having used your software, and working in digital forensics), I'd say you probably have the codebase to distinguish yourself in pulling data from blackberrys.
If you want to see what else is out there, look at paraben forensics, guidance software, and cellebrite.
The paraben tool requires blackberry desktop manager to be installed, and just hooks into their application for support. It then puts the data into a paraben-specific file format, preventing someone from being able to analyze the data with other tools. If you are interested and want more specific ideas for development, id be happy to talk about this in a less public venue than an open internet forum.
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I would look at either making the source code available to the forensics community, or pivot and release a program geared towards forensics. There is a market for tools to pull data off mobile devices. Currently its somewhat fragmented with a lot of players, but (having used your software, and working in digital forensics), I'd say you probably have the codebase to distinguish yourself in pulling data from blackberrys.
If you want to see what else is out there, look at paraben forensics, guidance software, and cellebrite.
Ah, interesting idea!
I looked at the apps you recommended, and it seems like at least Paraben has some BlackBerry support already.
How might we distinguish ourselves?
The paraben tool requires blackberry desktop manager to be installed, and just hooks into their application for support. It then puts the data into a paraben-specific file format, preventing someone from being able to analyze the data with other tools. If you are interested and want more specific ideas for development, id be happy to talk about this in a less public venue than an open internet forum.
Ah! That's certainly something they don't make clear on their pages!
Yes, please. If you're willing to contact me off-list (see profile for email address), I'd be most grateful.