While I suspect you are right, that in no way invalidates the position of the poster you are replying to.

IIS on Windows has an overwhelming share of the market when it comes to online commerce sites. It's only natural that hackers would...wait, what?

Ars Technica has a readership who believe that market share and share prices are the defacto standard of quality in IT. Even if the majority of its contributors were not staunch Microsoft fanatics (they are by and large), it would be extremely difficult to keep the readership happy without putting the boot in to Google, Apple, and Linux (in ascending order of ferocity) at every possible opportunity. One could say the same thing about Slashdot of course, but for me the big difference is that the Slashdot readership seem to at least have some self awareness of their bias. Ars' staff and readership actually think that they present a "balanced" viewpoint!

Thats the point I don't get. The cat is out of the bag. They just make themselves look like asses. Wouldn't it be better to just keep quiet until you have something ready and then release it?

Not Debian enough for you? Chroot it: http://wiki.maemo.org/Easy_Debian

They are obviously continually incrementing the number in the name of their product. I won't dispute that. And if it were not so there is a damn good chance this article wouldn't exist.

...that no matter how secure the investigators systems are, it won't help if your highly paid lawyers send the data in unencrypted format.

I believe that compared to FM the sound quality is actually worse.