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The true irony, of course, is that the package in question is designed (whether it does or not isn't the point, though I guess if it isn't very good then this becomes all the more humorous) to help prevent people from reusing common passwords or choosing passwords that are easy to brute force ;P... clearly the author should have used this package to select their password that protected the uploads of this package.



We don't know that. Their system could've been compromised in some other way and the password captured.




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