With Symbian Signed having been maligned by some in the past, David Wood reminds us in no uncertain terms of all of the reasons why such a scheme has to be in place. Google's Android marketplace is now hitting some of these issues, while the iPhone's App Store is artificially protected by the iPhone not allowing background applications of any kind. But David's arguments hold fast for all phone platforms that want to make it into the future...
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Symbian is a secure platform with or without platform security, it gives you more prompts than Windows Vista UAC before installing an app. The only problem is some users still manage to install shit on their phones. But come on, you can't limit the speed of a racecar to 40km/h just because some fools got involved in an accident.
Platform Security is nothing but a nuisance for advanced users, if only they could create a button to switch it off or maybe they should create something like a 50 question Symbian knowledge online test, you need to score 95% to switch off Platform Security. 😊