[DrTung]

Since they would have "their pick of the litter" why did they then include kill switches? A scary scenario is a rerun of the Viasat hack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viasat_hack I.e. wipe all servers worldwide at the morning of an attack, but before that you install the kill switches on your servers and those of your allies.

[akira2501]

To make it harder to detect and reverse engineer. There's a plethora of disabling functionality in the exploit. This is bad, but the original post is being hyperbolic.