Journalists need to write something and tend to sensationalise everything. The Intercept has a sane take on the level of "surprisingness": https://theintercept

Journalists need to write something and tend to sensationalise everything. The Intercept has a sane take on the level of "surprisingness": https://theintercept.com/2017/03/07/cia-has-an-impressive-list-of-ways-to-hack-into-your-smartphone-wikileaks-files-indicate/ https://theintercept.com/2017/03/07/cia-has-an-impressive-li... Most of it is just confirmation of things people have known is possible, but never caught in the wild.