Or it’s two separate bugs that were introduced at wildly different times (which the article mentions; the first bug was there pre-5.5.5 but useless on its own).

Or it’s two separate bugs that were introduced at wildly different times (which the article mentions; the first bug was there pre-5.5.5 but useless on its own). It’s quite a stretch to say that an engineer designed a multi-year project to surreptitiously break TLS so third party stores could be used without CFW (which is also pretty trivial to do on the WiiU).