I did my part and questioned this from the beginning only to be 'corrected' by other HN commentators. A competent person would have displayed logs, packet captures, stacktraces, etc. This guy just said "my infallible tools caught it" and those who want to believe in conspiracy theories just believed it. It was obvious from the get go that Mr. Credentials was just using an off the shelf definition based scanner.

Meanwhile, the shitty media outlets that irresponsibly spread this got all the ad impressions they wanted. The problem with truth is that its not as profitable as BS. How many people will ever read the corrections?