The amount of apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace
Microsoft's Windows Phone Marketplace has now reported to have passed 25,000 apps by one site tracking comings and goings within it. (source: WindowsPhoneAppslist, July 2011)
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This thing has been in the news for quite a while, it is strange that this shows up on Engadget only now.
The attack itself is interesting and high-tech, I enjoy the process of explaining my friends how it works and I am glad that today they work on this kind of stuff in universities.
However, I believe the story is a bit overhyped, because you can protect yourself very well if you follow some reasonable security guidelines. By "reasonable" I mean "guidelines that won't force you to change your entire life and habits". One has to rationally study the problem and figure out that the chance of becoming a victim can be minimized to acceptable rates.
This story provides some tips: http://www.lazybit.com/index.php/2008/02/27/protect-cold-reboot-attack-encryption?blog=2