If you think you've discovered a serious info-hazard and your first action is to post it publicly, you are not someone I want frequenting the same online spaces

If you think you've discovered a serious info-hazard and your first action is to post it publicly, you are not someone I want frequenting the same online spaces I frequent. Whether that particular info-hazard is, upon examination, remotely hazardous is aside from the point. (If you discover something that scares the crap out of you and you need someone to talk you down/point out why you're wrong/help you sleep at night, you find one very smart, very stable friend and you ask permission and then you talk through it, you do not just publish)