Microsoft partnership is like the kiss of death, at least in the mobile market.

Those who can, do. Those who can't, sue.

Monsanto only goes after farmers who knowingly grew their seeds, and they determine that because the pesticide monanto's "roundup ready" seeds are engineered to be resistant to kills regular plants. You'd never apply it to your crop unless you either wanted to kill it or you knew it was the resistant strain. Do the research.

Last I checked lots of countries now require a minimum state approved education paid for by tax money. That's much better than only educating the aristocracy and putting all the peasant children to work.

We didn't spend 7000 years trying to educate everyone, we've been trying to educate everyone for maybe 400.

Shut up and take my money!

I fix the computers of friends and co workers all the time.

Have fun when Joe the Burgler takes your computer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ntPxdWAWq8

Crypto is part of a full solution containing (crypto), proper segregation of permissions, proper segregation of user data / accounts, proper firewall configuration, proper software configuration, patching vulnurabilities, malware detection (lots of solutions on Windows, chkrootkit on linux), and user education. If I forgot anything add it to the list.

Before I get flamed, it is possible to do code signing without using it for evil. It's a tool like anything else.

Code signing to the rescue but slashdotters seem to hate that idea.

5-10 years and Windows XP, Java 1.4, and VB6 are in the clear. You honestly wouldn't want to take a peek at how those are constructed?

~Crowsourcing~

Encryption is the best anti-tampering mechanism you have in computing. Well placed encryption protects OS data from tampering, user data from theft, and sensitive communications secured. It's only getting more important.