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"Symbian is NOT your average OS, and takes some specialized training and experience to master. This is an investment in time, energy, money to become proficient at Symbian. For someone to go through all that, and then to write viruses is interesting to me."

True but the target is large and so is OS's exposure. Add to that the OPL is open source and it makes it just a little easier(or cheaper at least) for anyone to try.

I fail to see any comparison to Linux. Linux is a "barebones" OS compared to others. Linux may be more secure by design but also by the fact that is has very limited exposure without other apps on top. Symbian is a device specific dedicated OS that runs on many millions of cell phones and has, in contrast, nearly full exposure. Symbian's OPL is open source although their OS is not. It is the exposure that makes a target. The security is the challenge. And finally not to flame the nix world but Linus secretly coding security patches into the kernel throws a dark cloud over the "more eyes on" debate. He's finding and fixing stuff that obviously no other eyes have caught.

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