Regarding the Debian OpenSSL disaster, the question was brought up on the OpenSSL mailing list (and read there); regarding the Tarsnap bug, it is not an unbraced if but a non-incremented nonce. If two of the five comments in an article are obviously wrong, how much trust should I possibly put into the remaining 60%?
It's sarcasm. You've missed the rhetorical point of the article.
(To be more clear, each comment mimics the comments made about the "goto fail" bug, and the crucial point is not pure mockery or a defence of Apple, but rather the final paragraph.)
The point is that because there are always mistakes in everything, that the NSA is never involved? Strange, because I'm sure they've been implicated more than zero times.
NOTE: I have no opinion on their involvement in the goto fail;
The logical negation of "there are rarely these easy mistakes in something, so the NSA must always be involved", is not "because there are always mistakes in everything, that the NSA is never involved".
