The whole point is that you didn't have to be a skilled attacker to figure out anything mentioned in the post. If the author had discovered an obscure security

The whole point is that you didn't have to be a skilled attacker to figure out anything mentioned in the post. If the author had discovered an obscure security hole that allowed him to access sensitive information, then yes he's only going to make the problem worse by distributing that information online. But it does not take a skilled attacker to "hack" a system where messages are being sent in plain text.