Your criticism is at least as apt as mine. OTOH, if someone's going to do a drive-by comment in a discussion where they lean heavily on the authority of a mana

Your criticism is at least as apt as mine. OTOH, if someone's going to do a drive-by comment in a discussion where they lean heavily on the authority of a management position at a high-profile company, and then proceed to speak as if they don't understand how the area they interact with intersects with security and haven't thoughtfully engaged with the comment they're responding to, then I'm not really sure it's out of line to suggest that whatever authority they've been given has been questionably allocated.