I notice they've continued their defense in an update to the blog post: "One more small note: Much has been said about a line of code in our XMPP library that

I notice they've continued their defense in an update to the blog post: "One more small note: Much has been said about a line of code in our XMPP library that supposedly is a sign of bad practice — this line is not used for anything security-sensitive. It is not a security weakness. It came as part of the third-party XMPP library that Cryptocat uses."