I usually take The Inquirer's articles with a grain of salt, but I rarely start the switch of my intellect when reading about browser's security anymore. Unless it's about the one I'm using the most : Phoenix/Mozilla. I read it quickly, didn't pay much attention to details, saw a possible security issue and decided to sweep Opera from my computer.
PGP and blablabla bore me. Besides, I much prefer Phoenix to Opera, so it's not like it changed much of anything in my browsing habits.
To my defense, I found it weird that Adaware didn't find and any spyware caused by Opera (only by Eudora) in all the months I gave it trial shots. "But hey, why take chance?" I told myself.
The annoyingly high memory usage by Opera isn't acceptable though. Until they find a way to fix that, I doubt they'll convince me to switch from Phoenix.