I'm picking up on this old thread as I've just sold my N900 and would like to simply wipe my personal information.

I'm a bit scared of doing the flash of the firmware image and the eMMC as I am a complete noob and would want to brick the device right before selling it...

So my question is, is it safe to use the "rm -r /home/user/.*" in xterm ?

Thanks for your help and thanks to the community in general for the last 3 months and my N900 experience ! It is a good device but I'm too much of a noob to appreciate it