Is there anyone that does not believe using purposefully broken crypto (that may or may not have been written by an AI, LOL), in order to create a backdoor in the code is stupid and antithetical to the ideals of open source?

I find it really odd that these people continue to make this claim and pretend it's okay to do this.  It's not.  

And if this guy honestly believes he can argue cryptanalysis with MIT, well.