Wait, so are you saying that a Windows derivative is more secure then a Linux derivative?
*runs to look outside*
HOLY F^$K THERE ARE PIGS FLYING!

One problem I have read about on Android is that some 3rd party apps and even shovel-ware put on the phone by vendors is weak. Basically I could install a totally legit text messaging app and another app could invoke it to send messages on its behalf. So from a user standpoint, I approve the text messaging app to send SMS (legit) and later I install Uno. It could wait some random period of time and then start sending messages. This is actually preferred for the malware creators because then it also has another variable as when it would work (say its dependent on a carrier branded dialer, or some other 3rd party app).

http://www.ei.rub.de/media/trust/veroeffentlichungen/2010/11/13/DDSW2010_Privilege_Escalation_Attacks_on_Android.pdf
(Sorry, PDF)
This has a pretty good explanation of the problem, and honestly I'm not sure if this could also work on an iOS device. (Can apps on iOS invoke another app?)

Interesting people have not noticed that Sony Music is still on the list.
Also, I noticed the National Sheriff's Association is also on the list. Guess my yearly donation will now be going to a better org.

Now the question I have is that if SOPA passes, how long do you think it will take for every business that supports it to have some sort of infringing material?
"Oh look Sony, I can tell by the metadata in your websites header image that some intern you hired years ago used a pirated version of Photoshop....**OFFLINE**"

Oh, I forgot to add their issues with CCD's in the past as well.

Quality products?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony#Laptop_batteries_dysfunction

And about the rootkit CD, you act like Sony has no people capable of evaluating a product. "They just wanted to try".... on my hardware, GFYS Sony. The evil part on top of that is that the tool to remove the rootkit was even worse then the rootkit itself. Read either Mark's blog on SysInternals, or one of the links posted above if you want to actually understand the douchiness of their response.

I agree that they *used* to have high quality products such as their old tube based displays; But as the PlayStation has consumed larger and larger % of their profits, their other products quality has gone downhill. Search for the Sony 3LCD light engine problem as another example of their quality becoming crap.

Isn't it about time for your product to remove a critical system component such as LSASS or WinLogon?

Bad example. His clamshell cell phone made the communicator chirp when he opens it, and in a later episode he tells people he used to captain a spaceship:

Denny Crane: [walking through a crowd of reporters] dennycranelaw.com. Pictures, bios, hobbies. I once captained my own spaceship. Muli-talented.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0402711/quotes?qt0401847

I also seem to remember a few quips about his 'other' job, hinting at his work for Priceline. I always got the impression that he was spoofing himself as a running gag throughout the show.

I feel I should say something here, but not quite sure what

I would say that Zork has them beat by quite a few years on VM design. Now I agree that you could say that it wasn't a general VM but it obviously is prior art.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-machine

So, they replaced a C#/.NET infrastructure with C++/Linux and apparently didn’t test it? Now, I’m not the systems engineer involved with this, but I have a hard time believing that something like this didn’t come up in testing.

At least now they have the ultimate answer, now they just need to work on the ultimate question.

I'm currently working on a multiplatform game myself, so here's what I've done:

1) Primary codebase is C# targeted against the .NET 4.0 framework
2) Using ProjectLinkler in VS 2010, I Sync the game logic, and a fair amount of the UI code from #1 to Silverlight for Web and Silverlight for WP7
3) Using "CSharp to Java" coverter tool, I sync #1 to Java (game logic only)
4) Branch #3 into Blackberry and Android codebases
5) iOS has Monotouch which is a Mono implementation for it.

This process is Long winded I admit, but it works to keep the game logic in sync for bug fixes/features added. Now the GUI part is another beast in itself, just due to the vastly different ways each platform handles UI/events. If I can get 60%+ of my code to be take care of by processes instead of manually, to me thats a win.

I admit I haven't worked with Monotouch yet, as I want to be closer to finished before I invest the money into Apple's dev kit (Ie, a Mac)

I haven't spent anytime trying to port it to consoles just due to the nature of the game (Word puzzle). But since I did the codebase in C#, I can port it pretty easily to the 360, and with the PS3's signing key in the open, I guess I could look at porting it to the PS3 as well.