People choose what they want to believe. We all do it to an extent, and I guess ESR saw wanted to see smoking gun (oh dear, pun not intended), and therefore believed a bit of code to be such a gun. A person of a more conservative disposition would look more carefully and dispassionately.
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Date: 2009-11-30 05:25 am (UTC)