But that sounds like a pretty terrible algorithm, was this really done in such a simplistic way?

My theory is they probably trawled the antifa or other leftie sites for a programmer, but knowing what was up, we had a white hat that had infiltrated in advance, auditioned and won the spot.

Knowing that lefties ain't that bright, our white hat made an algo that was "just good enough" too fool them, but to leave a radioactively glowing trail when the math nerds hit the data.

It is easy for an infiltrator to hop onto a project to cause a ruckus. I can point you to a variety of shitcoin cryptos that failed and left their scammer owners broke, because some robinhood put an algo timebomb deep in the code, obfuscated by code steganography to suffer a bad leak at the first halving.