And I'll just finish that thought since there are real engineers involved who probably had good intentions and skills: (as the article stated) the Google engineers were trying to improve compatibility and also seemed to follow the path of what other platforms (Java) had done in he past.
Code reviews happen every day in the industry, and often times it's amazing how many flaws and defects are found, but often internally and not exposed for the world to see and speculate on. The nature of open source is that this is all out in the open, and that's fine. It's also good that Google is actively paying bounties on discovering/fixing these types of bugs in a variety of major open source projects.
