The dynamics here are pretty specific to cryptocurrency (real companies do often have crappy responses to disclosure, but the only drama that ensues from those reactions tends to be pile-ons) and I'm reasonably sure the subtext here is IOTA.
It really wasn't intended to single out any specific project. All the "funny anecdotes" are real events that happened to me or to people I know, and now that I think about it, none of them involve Iota.
I can still reproduce a major bug in Google search at will, it's a nice party trick.