I would suggest that the author's description of the developer(s) as "incompetent" is somewhat more reasonable than your (implied) description of him/her as a "

I would suggest that the author's description of the developer(s) as "incompetent" is somewhat more reasonable than your (implied) description of him/her as a "complete and utter jerk". Perhaps the author should have narrowed the description to incompetence in crypto and not generalized to "everyone involved", but I don't think it's entirely unreasonable given the apparent magnitude of the problems and the history of the product.