Yes, that's a good point. Although he says about them watching people like Moriarty they must have something fairly specific in mind that they want from him.

Common theory seems to be that "Stayin' Alive" is the Final Problem. No idea if that is correct.

I think, "staying alive" as a whole isn't Moriarty's problem, just the (booooring!) "staying". It would correspond to Sherlock's "breathing", that is boring to the latter. Maybe the final problem is living without being bored - that applies to both of them.

wholocked,
that's funny, because yesterday I discovered the shot of the security camera, too, and - yes, you are right- Andy is definitely putting the diamond into place with his left hand. And not only that: He's putting it at a different spot on the glas. Such a big continuity cluncker really annoyes me, because the leftie/rightie thing is often very important in classic mystery stories.
Anyway, since it was my big theory, that the twin theory could be proven by different handedness, I looked again at the scenes, which might indicate Moriarty's handedness in all episodes, and found many more inconsistencies, not only with the phone, but with other things, too. Even his body language is not compatible with a pure leftie.As I said before, I have done a lot of research into the handedness problem, job wise and for personal reasons. It's far too lenghthy and complicated to give a detailed analysis here. I came to the conclusion, that either they wanted to show Moriarty to be ambidextrous for some reason (maybe just to troll us, lol!), or that Andy Scott is ambidextrous or a leftie with strong ambidextrous tendencies. At the moment I'm going with the latter, because clips from Andy in other roles, and the ease of his performance seem to confirm this. I had dismissed this thought before, because it's so unlikely. While about 10 % of humanity is left handed, only a very small percentage is  crossdominant, and an even smaller percentage is ambidextrous.
While I personally still think, the twin theory has some merits (there's still the discontinuity of Moriarty's facial hair growth, which of course could be artistic licence or an error as well), and could be a compelling story line with a nod to canon, if handled skillfully, my arguments have become weaker: it cannot be proven by looking at the handedness.
This kind of continuity errors make me a little angry, because it's not even a fleeting thing, which you could only detect in super slo mo. It makes you question, how much you can trust the things you clearly see in the show. And this surveillance camera shot must be a continuity error. Any other explanation seems too far fetched. It makes me also question the validity of the discovery, that the body on the stretcher, which gets wheeled into the hospital in the final shot of that scene, is not Ben Cumberbatch, but probably one of the stuntmen, who did some jumps. There are many websites, which have posted conclusive screen caps (thefinalproblem went into it most extensively). Since you can see the (quite bloodless) face of the person only in slo mo, I tend to think of it as another continuity error, since a body switch OUTSIDE  of the hospital doesn't make much sense to me.

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There's an absolutely brilliant analysis of Moriarty/Jim/Brook and Andrew Scott's performance; at the end, they deconstruct the rooftop conversation when Moriarty sees something in Sherlock's eyes and decides to kill himself which people have asked about in other threads.

It's pretty much exactly what I was trying to convey but I don't have nearly the ability to explain as this person does!

By the way, check out their other articles if you haven't already. Really very interesting.

http://mkhey.wordpress.com/2012/04/18/sherlock-technique-part-viii-moriarty-im-the-storyteller/