Guess what? Reddit outdid us on this one. james_hart in particular, but also a series of smaller clarifying comments. Look at this one:

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/df72k/quite_ser...

The HN thread consists basically of knee-jerking about "those waskly sekuwity wesearchers" and blatantly overtly false statements from people who had no business giving guidance about a flaw they knew literally nothing about.

Welp, the first comment was deleted. That completely changes the apparent tone.