I also don't think this indicates malicious intent. It's as likely that some collection of junior engineers who were tasked with something other than system se

I also don't think this indicates malicious intent. It's as likely that some collection of junior engineers who were tasked with something other than system security, simply invented something that was both insecure and obscure. This happens all the time. It takes a lot of extra time and code to engineer security and it's historically been one of the first things that product managers and senior management will toss out the door when the schedule inevitably becomes the gating factor. Hey, they fixed it. And you know, some Day One bugs are simply very very hard to fix when you find out years later that there's all this other code that depends on it...