The key was sitting there in the binary in plaintext. Any college student with a few years of Unix tools under his belt could have done it in an hour.
That's how horrible this tool was. Anyone who noticed this months ago could have been using this key to MITM people.
I was doing stuff like this when 15 using just Windows notepad and knowing jack squat about Linux. Seriously, anyone at any age who knows anything about (non-web) programming would find it by just opening an .exe in said notepad. That's how horrible this tool was.
And I don't believe that no one noticed it and that it wasn't exploited already. It's just too easy to find.
It's a buzz word for sure, but unfortunately our industry is full of them