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by amalag 5005 days ago
Why are you upset with him, at least he informed people. You should be more upset with an insecure app. A less talkative person would just keep it and use the AWS accounts for bitmining.
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Please read my comment again :)

You can find a security hole and report it. That's nice and good behavior. But when you say "I have compromised the data with me", then you are being evil.

I signed up to the app because I liked the idea and wanted to support them. I knew that their app was in alpha stage yet.

I'm upset about his behavior. I'm upset that his behavior might hurt 2 nerds' inspiration.

I'm not upset about he got my keys.

But you are right. His behavior is still better than not saying anything.

> I'm upset about his behavior. I'm upset that his behavior might hurt 2 nerds' inspiration.

I'm hoping they're inspired to write secure code from line one.

If anything, he did you a favor. You're probably going to create new keys now, whereas you might have written it off as a hypothetical vulnerability otherwise.