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by jspthrowaway 4998 days ago
That's your response to someone (admittedly, poorly) discovering and reporting a security vulnerability in your application? Telling him to "be nice" then dropping his e-mail and face as some kind of stick-waving, threatening gesture?

Congratulations on demonstrating to me and countless others why I shouldn't use any product that you EVER touch. You don't get a pass because you're just two nerds. You have a form with a submit button -- that's where your responsibility as a founder and custodianship of user data begins. Day 1, you're already a liability.

I realize this is a pretty direct attack but I'm appalled and staggered by your behavior in this thread. You launched a service on the public Internet. There is no grace period, there is no "friendly fire"; you fucked up and you disclosed AWS credentials. Not users' favorite colors. AWS KEYS. Tied to credit cards, running servers, S3 backups, God knows what. You don't get to tell people to be nice to you when you're acting as the steward of AWS credentials; you protect them and act like you care when someone tells you that you fucked up doing so.

Your behavior here is just foreboding for the future, and you need to realize that before launching your next endeavor (this one is probably done, after that little mess).

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Yes. This the entire way. Fuck everything about this situation, christ. Thank god I didn't sign up.
This wasn't some exotic exploit either. Public, numbered (1,2,3...) accounts, all of them editable - it's almost funny. Can you imagine what other security problems exist in the code.