- Not you personally. I have experience with HN comments. Just covering my bases.
- No, it's not the case here. Unless you can prove it. There's no evidence it was done intentionally.
- No, it's not the case here. Unless you can prove it. There's no evidence it was done intentionally.
It could be disguised as an access for their own service and the real purpose be mass surveillance, or it could be a simple mistake in a big codebase, but the "door" is definitely not a bug.
Even though nowadays we keep hearing about nefarious backdoors, they used to simply refer to hidden service entrances for software creators, a completely legitimate use.