This is a teachable moment.

It's okay if you don't like me or PIE. Lots of people don't, for various reasons, and that's a reality that we have to live with.

For example, computer criminals will tend to not like us over the long term because we decrease their potential earnings by preventing breaches. (Funny enough, some still like us anyway, because our work helps prevent unskilled criminals from having the same success as sophisticated ones, but I digress.) Some people just don't like the way our website looks and get tired of seeing it.

It's okay if you're skeptical of our understanding of security issues. I particularly enjoy discussing these topics and (time permitting) am happy to answer peoples' questions. There are many things I don't know (i.e. x86 assembly), and many things I'm not good at (i.e. C programming), and eventually one of those things will be relevant to a security issue and I'll either be ignorant or misinformed. When that day comes, I hope that the skeptics in the community will take it upon themselves to enlighten everyone and/or correct me, so that everyone wins.

It's also okay if you're not particularly intelligent. Everyone has different advantages and disadvantages in life. I'm legally blind in my left eye, but I have excellent color perception in my other. I don't fault anyone for having faced challenges in life; rather, I applaud people who put forth the effort to overcome them.

What's not okay is to attack others because of your dislike or distrust of them, without them having done anything wrong, while being stupid. Being called a clown of a security expert from a throwaway Reddit account that handed control over the account directly over to the target of your ire doesn't really convince anyone that you're right.

Maybe, next time, just don't even bother? There's more to life than petty conflict.