First, as far as I'm aware, there's no allegation that either this developer or Rogue Amoeba was responsible for extracting and publishing the key in the first

First, as far as I'm aware, there's no allegation that either this developer or Rogue Amoeba was responsible for extracting and publishing the key in the first place. Second, I think the point is that some developers did good and innovative things with the key. By itself, I'd call extracting and publishing the key a mundane technical challenge, nothing more.