For an Android game downloaded from the Play store I wouldn't find these findings surprising at all. But from an official app from the White House? Well ok, from THIS White House - you're completely right to expect that.
The DoD has been hacked countless times, by children even. I wouldn't doubt if we decompiled most government apps we'd find this same vector in many of them.
It seems like this vector is only recently a hot topic. And decades of doing things wrong won't be patched and habits broken in short time. It will take a few years to get the majority of it, and decades after that to get the next majority, and so on.
This one failed to do that. And that makes it stink of fanaticism (which is annoying to rational folks).
Your commentary, just as well, might be interesting here if you were a chat bot.
This is HN, not CNN.
Again, I agree that pervious admins were also crap, but that isn't an excuse for the current administration. We should be critical and sceptical regardless. And I think this current admin is actually worse, even so they tried so hard (or at least pretents) to fix everything. But it's all the same, left of right, they're all fooling us, and have us fighting among each other, so we don't see what's really happening behind the stage.
That is comparing incompetence with abuse.
It's both bad but different kinds of bad. One is ignorant, the other is evil.
Companies that sell app development don't write an app from scratch for every one of their customers. They have a template that includes basic functions that are relevant for marketing. May not be needed for everyone, but why would they bother removing it without pay? That's what you're looking at here.
It's vanilla nothing, sprinkled with your political heroes, stirred and served to you on HN.
Enjoy bro. If you liked the article, read it again. It's even more Trump related the second time!