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If it were my decision though, and my company did have a need to prevent people from bringing in cameras, i wouldn't trust a software lockout to that.
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Why can't they just make an IT rule to disable the camera, just like they disable service books and the like. So the guy who controls the BES server, can turn off the camera and the only way to re-enable it is to push a blank IT policy to it. Wow - that was so hard.

Even though that would just stop the employees that use corporate blackberries from stealing their own companies secrets on that phone. I don't know about you, but I have a work cell and a personal cell and my personal cell has a camera too.

Pathetic really...

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A "very important executive" lost his key and wants a replacement and is upset when we don't have them in stores. This is a customer service nightmare and will garner bad press as soon as CEO Leo of XYZ company can't take pictures of his ugly ass daughter.

I agree with another poster, make it a password lock instead.]]>Mar 10th 2008 8:02PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/03/10/rim-patent-locks-down-cameras-the-old-fashioned-way-with-a-key/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/03/10/rim-patent-locks-down-cameras-the-old-fashioned-way-with-a-key/Mar 13th 2008 1:19AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/03/10/rim-patent-locks-down-cameras-the-old-fashioned-way-with-a-key/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/03/10/rim-patent-locks-down-cameras-the-old-fashioned-way-with-a-key/Mar 11th 2008 11:14AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/03/10/rim-patent-locks-down-cameras-the-old-fashioned-way-with-a-key/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/03/10/rim-patent-locks-down-cameras-the-old-fashioned-way-with-a-key/Mar 11th 2008 12:22PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/03/10/rim-patent-locks-down-cameras-the-old-fashioned-way-with-a-key/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/03/10/rim-patent-locks-down-cameras-the-old-fashioned-way-with-a-key/Mar 11th 2008 12:59PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/03/10/rim-patent-locks-down-cameras-the-old-fashioned-way-with-a-key/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/03/10/rim-patent-locks-down-cameras-the-old-fashioned-way-with-a-key/Mar 11th 2008 1:57PM