Chris DiBona at Google says all AV makers on Android are [crooks]

There's an interesting discussion on the web about whether AV products are needed on Android and Chris DiBona really got things going when he claimed all the AV makers "charlatans and scammers", and "IF you work for a company selling virus protection for android, rim or IOS you should be ashamed of yourself."

[ although these juicy quotes may change in subsequent edits ]

Then,

Antivirus makers responded on Ars - "We're not Scammers"


Unfortunately there was a small matter of 21 apps pulled from the Android market

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/03/malware-in-android-market-highlights-googles-vulnerability.ars

So is this simply a matter of Mr DiBona using a pedantic definition of AV?

1. AV has truly morphed to Malware detection
2. If you use Perry's Law of Malware - You can only respond to two kinds of problems - the kind you've seen and the kind you can anticipate. People who care about their data and IT need to address both - and we can't simply trust Google and the Carriers to do it for us.

Perry

Update 1/4/2012 - Maybe he means this?
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/fake-antivirus-scams-targeting-android-users-122911

Update 1/28/2012 
From Slashdot: Android Malware May Have Infected 5 Million Users

Oh really?  5 million users af[in]fected because a platform is 

1. Totally insecure
2. Has no AV or Malware detection
3. Even though it has a single place to acquire software, the administrators of the distributor have completely abdicated their responsibilities for quality control 
4. Largely unpatched due to closed platform on customer dependence on suppliers who prioritize releasing new devices far above fixing the security of old devices?

And the people trying to make a business out of this obvious customer need are scammers?
Hello? Anybody home?  

Google knows all, and sometimes it's easy to make them tell

This is interesting - a blogger uses google analytics to de-anonymize another blogger

http://waxy.org/2011/11/google_analytics/

Lesson- If it's important to keep your anonymity - link nothing together

It's 1984, i guess

Well I guess it's like the frog in the water...  He never notices it's boiling until it's too late.

I think it's too late

When will the TV's be two way?  Soon?

What can these people possibly be thinking?

:-(