[1] How to Backdoor Invulnerable Code: https://youtu.be/EGshffkzZsY?t=680
Speakers at large companies must get the entire content of their public presentations approved by PR and upper management well in advance. The process can take weeks even for completely innocuous information because accidental disclosure can have serious implications.
1. Disclosure of number of customers, number of transactions, number of anything can be reverse engineered by investors and competitors to derive forward looking information about the company's finances. Or worse, transactions related to specific customers so their financials could be reverse engineered. Good way to lose a client.
2. Disclosures of internal resources, urls, domains, architectures etc can be a treasure trove for competitors and malicious attackers.
Maybe it was a tongue in cheek joke because he was fully aware his content had been vetted 10 times over. Or maybe not and this is part of a pattern.
In contrast I _did_ watch the linked video and can tell you that it was professional, did not expose any personal details of SF employees, any company secrets nor did it disparage the company or paint it in a negative light.
Don't believe me? Just watch the video.
Don't know OP's motivation in making his comment. He blames a misunderstanding of a colloquialism for the confusion, but to me it looks like an attempt to discredit the presenter.
And I may have locked my last account (i336_) a while back by setting "noprocrast" to a ridiculous value, which I TIL that day actually is not fixable. This is a new account. I'm debating whether to ask for my old account to be unlocked, or to start again.
FWIW, this account's first post went badly - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14909407 (downvoted to 0) - and I got bitten a couple days ago as well - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14975515 (down to -1), hmph.
I find that irony indirectly relates to cynicism sometimes.
I think the "in the house" exclamation/reply was in agreement with what you were saying, and that it was directed at Salesforce.