Nah, I'm doubting myself more here as time passes. If it's meant for unattended booting, why/how is there a password? This smells more and more like an extrem

Nah, I'm doubting myself more here as time passes. If it's meant for unattended booting, why/how is there a password? This smells more and more like an extremely poorly thought out system that allowed a bug to compromise the system.