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by jaredsohn 5121 days ago
While funny, if you reveal something like that and it is something you're not supposed to know for privacy reasons (don't know if that was the case here or not; maybe it showed up in a log entry and their privacy policy indicates that this will happen), and the information becomes more public you can get yourself into trouble (like 37Signals did when they say that the 100,000,000th file on BaseCamp was a picture of a cat. (http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3076-i-heard-you-like-numbers...)
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It's linked from the YC "How to Apply"[1] page.

Don't try scaring people unless you are very sure of what you are talking about.

[1] http://ycombinator.com/howtoapply.html