It doesn't matter how many times you covered it. It was a dick move, plain and simple. You obviously knew about the flaw at least few days before your intervie

It doesn't matter how many times you covered it. It was a dick move, plain and simple. You obviously knew about the flaw at least few days before your interview with Forbes (or whatever it was). Shooting a one-liner email to Onity was a no-brainer. "I found a major flaw in your locks. Contact me for details." They reply - great, they don't - fine, proceed as planned. I come from a reverse engineering background and I'm sorry to say but I have lost all professional respect for you, regardless of how good of a reverser you are.