I actually like when that happens. Like when people "correct" me about how reddit works. I appreciate that we still focus on the content and not who is saying it.

This happens over and over in these discussions. It doesn't matter who you're citing or who's talking. People are terrified and are reacting to news reflexively.

Sure he wrote a port scanner that obscures the IP address of the scanner, but does he know anything about security? /s

Oh, and he wrote Redis. No biggie.