"Whoops, we disclosed everybody's AWS credentials. I know! Rather than tell our users, I'll wipe the database and remove all evidence of it ever happening."
It's not helpful, it's realistic. My exact wording was "your time will be better spent elsewhere."
We each have 24 hours in a day. I spend 8-9 of mine sleeping, 9-10 at work. That doesn't leave much leftover for me.
If zacharyvoase wants to spend his precious free time educating people who haven't done any due diligence to learn how to build a secure web app, that's his prerogative. But I don't see it as a good use of his time - there's already tons of resources out there that will do a better job than zachary. Is HN supposed to be a newbie education destination?
actually, we'll just wipe them and force new ones.