[45h34jh53k4j]

Also -- here is a good moral thermometer:

"PS: I will not open-source the code since it could be used to hurt people, but I might share it if you ask nicely."

If you write code for fun (not commercially owned IP), and you are not willing to share it because 'it could hurt people', you might want to re-evaluate if you should write it in the first place.

[gorkonsine]

Personally I think his approach here was really awful, but for this particular thing you could argue that the code is OK if used by one person, or a very tiny number of people, but if it were used by many people it'd be a big problem. There's a lot of things like that.