Microsoft Security Will Block Custom ROMs, Slowdown Hackers By About 5 Minutes

PVK

WPCentral has a very good write-up of a major security system on WP7: PVK. PVK are the private keys that Microsoft uses to authenticate the operating system, and are apparently tied to the hardware, and have to be pulled from the motherboard. If they're not there or broken, then certain fundamental aspects of the phone work properly — basically anything that uses the internet: … [Read more...]