The article links to several el reg stories which seem to corroborate it: 1: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/08/microsoft_says_it_wont_fix_kernel_flaw_its

The article links to several el reg stories which seem to corroborate it: 1: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/08/microsoft_says_it_wont_fix_kernel_flaw_its_not_a_security_issue_apparently/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/08/microsoft_says_it_wo... 2: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/28/kaspersky_lab_us_staff_questioned_by_fbi/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/28/kaspersky_lab_us_st... 3: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/08/best_buy_yanks_kaspersky_software/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/08/best_buy_yanks_kasp...