They probably think too highly of themselves and rationalized that two wrongs make a right (doing something bad is OK so long as its against bad people) passed

They probably think too highly of themselves and rationalized that two wrongs make a right (doing something bad is OK so long as its against bad people) passed down by upper management. At some point down the line, they probably figured they could just install in on all machines to save them some effort of having just 1 version of the software. But they've really dug themselves a hole though. Reading the article indicates this wasn't just a 1-off decision, but a multi-level decision made by several people over a long time frame. That all of this was premeditated and well thought out / given enough consideration to go ahead and install a backdoor on all their PCs. In any case, this is also why I don't save any passwords via chrome. Its not secure at all for storing passwords, so long as you have access to the localdb, you have a vulnerability.