I just wanted to congratulate the submitter. News for nerds and a grade A pun in one go. Well done.

From TFA and TFS ...showing that the CIA had the ability to hack Windows 10 months after its launch, despite Microsoft boasting about how hard it would be to hack its new OS... This was completely unnecessary and unproductive. If you are going to editorialize and add childish zingers like this to your article, people are going to assume the rest of your article is not objective as well and will not take your point seriously. Not to mention that noone is going to be surprised that the collective efforts of the CIA along with a security contractor will be able to crack into an OS during the course of 10 months.

PWC isn't really a financial company. Its mostly Audit and Consulting. For the uninitiated with the big [s]five[/s] four, they hire fresh grads and sell their services for $300/hr. This financial backing is how they became one of the largest conglomerates of firms in the world. If you aren't familiar with the fairly large imprint these consulting firms have worldwide, I would recommend you take a peek when you have a chance.

According to the advisory itself: 19.08.2016 PwC contacted 22.08.2016 Meeting with PwC, informed them about the impact and the details of the vulnerability and responsible disclosure 05.09.2016 Asked PwC about updates and whether a patch is available 13.09.2016 Received a Cease & Desist letter from PwC lawyers 18.11.2016 Informed that 90 days have passed and ESNC is planning to release a security advisory; asked for any details PwC can share about this matter including risk, affected versions, how to obtain a patch 22.11.2016 Received another Cease & Desist letter from PwC lawyers 07.12.2016 Public disclosure

So don't try to be bigger and better because you will be a target. Got it. Thanks, bullshit media!

So 20% macs have infections on it that they have no reason to counter. Woo. A stat like how many would actually make it onto a system that would have a reason to guard against that virus would be an important stat to guestimate. If you assume there are hardly any windows machines with rudimentary enough security to accept the majority of these viruses to begin with - a story which would sync with known windows infection rates -, this becomes a nonstory. But this essential fact wasn't looked at, making this entire story worthless propaganda.

Step 1: Go to /b/ and post rambling about destroying the media darling Facebook
Step 2: Write an article about your anonymous posting.
Step 3: Profit.

Didn't we (the scientific community) know this already? I could have sworn we did.