Thanks, I totally agree. Just to be clear I'm not saying it's malice as I don't believe that. I'm just saying the end result is the same so one should consider them a hostile actor for purposes of threat modeling.

Given you're the second person who I think took away that I was accusing them of malice, I probably need to reword my post a bit to reduce confusion.

Accusing them of malice is irresponsible without evidence, and if I were doing that it would undermine my credibility (which is why I'm pointing this out).