I meant by that, it needs reading between the lines: some ppl were exploiting th...

I meant by that, it needs reading between the lines: some ppl were exploiting the "convenient bug" in other kind of benign systems while publishing, but they had real exploits using the "same convenient bug" on more troublesome production systems.

For instance, in a fantasy world, path parsing in SVN has a "convenient bug" and you can find the same "convenient bug" deep in blink URL parsing.