Typical.
The comments in the article above hint at the amount of corruption (and conversely, lack of trust) that exists in that part of the big marble. This seems to go back to the idea that if someone is unwilling to trust you, it is probably prudent to limit your trust in them.
Dr. Mutua made one good point regarding the FDR: Like anything computerised, it can be fiddled with in a lab to produce lies upon request.
All the same, to imagine that Boeing (or Airbus?) would ever be so devious seems to be bordering on paranoid thinking.