Non-credible defence. It's military shit posting, basically. Sometimes quite funny but over all it reeks of that one mate who got kicked out of the army for something useless, but somehow it's a huge part of their identity they can't let go of...
And anyone who knows what they're doing would have built in decent safeguards - obviously hindsight is a luxury here, but there's a reason there's a whole lot of checking that goes on when others are downloading update content over a hostile network... Input validation is a thing, and all that.
They just weren't very mature on that front, and now we all got to laugh at them but everyone else made similar mistakes along the way, just most of them started their journey decades ago (thinking windows update, etc), so we forget about the learning curve they suffered through building a resilient process
The 2nd page is a big honking table of different sizes, profiles and rim widths, so I gather there's a degree of anything goes and maybe next time we wear ours out, I'll try to be a little more attentive.. Maybe I can get some accurately sized ones (probably not worth it - getting pinged for going a few kmh over the speed limit would really suck!)
What a champ