Agreed - I don't think this was badloy worded, especially keeping in mind that wording a question so that the answer is essentially given to you defeats the purpose.

Finally - a question posed with no stated assumptions (IMHO) should be reviewed with no stated assumptions. There's nothing in the wording pointing towards HOW it was invoked (with or without the default settings), so I'm not sure how you could jump there. As a matter of fact - making a "hidden assumption" would make the question substantially more unfair. Again - in my opinion...