The MIT team wasn't being sloppy, they were using standard terminology that anyone with a cryptography background would understand. The naive assumption on thei

The MIT team wasn't being sloppy, they were using standard terminology that anyone with a cryptography background would understand. The naive assumption on their part was that the development team of a major crypto currency understood decades-old cryptanalysis techniques that are covered in an introductory undergraduate course. I think there was some disbelief that a team with so much money could have made such an incredibly rookie mistake.