I think I'm on board with your POV here. I guess it would have been more difficult for Apple to find the key/device ID used in this scheme had these not been a

I think I'm on board with your POV here. I guess it would have been more difficult for Apple to find the key/device ID used in this scheme had these not been available on the first few pages linked by a lot of articles claiming iMessage is broken. Had this not been publicly posted, someone would've been forced to at least open a log file.