D-Wave has been operating under heavy-duty NDA's for a long time. I know of at least two published authors in quantum physics who have signed an NDA and been g

D-Wave has been operating under heavy-duty NDA's for a long time. I know of at least two published authors in quantum physics who have signed an NDA and been given the grand tour. I know one well enough to have asked him what he thought without divulging anything he couldn't tell me. He said what D-Wave had when he was there was not a general purpose quantum computer, but rather, a sort of hard-coded specific purpose device not unlike an electronic circuit built to implement a specific algorithm rather than function as a general purpose programmable device. Regardless, what D-Wave has is real enough that they are not being laughed at in the circles that matter. I would also say that they aren't doing anything that makes academics who are working on QC devices despair of doing anything useful themselves. I think it's rather unlikely that this device is going to be busting open RSA keys anytime soon. In short, this is probably not fake or a scam. It's just not quite what the original poster was hoping it was.