I'm still floored that Andres both found this and didn't ignore it. It's such a testament to an incredible engineer.

(But also, my conspiratorially-inclined mind is quite entertained by the thought of some sort of parallel construction or tip from a TLA.)

With the enormous budgets we allocate in the name of "national security", this is exactly the kind of work I expect TLAs to do.

Instead we have come to expect them to cowardly sit on exploits, or actively introduce them, rather than working to secure the general public from adversaries.

What a mess.