This feels gross. The kind of people who read HN see a headline or read this post and will immediately assume it's all true without caring to hear the other sid

This feels gross. The kind of people who read HN see a headline or read this post and will immediately assume it's all true without caring to hear the other side of the story. Somehow the author thought the best course of action would be to publicly call them out instead of just taking sensible technical measures to stop it. Talk about burning bridges. Tarnishing their image in the eyes of people who will never see the follow up, other side of the story, or retraction to this is very irresponsible.