If you read a (dead, for some reason) comment by the author, he explains what that means: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20147573
I absolutely refuse to remove phrases like that. This is exactly what some of those people are and because they are security people does not allow them to behave less well than other people.
And I find that I'm being quite polite by not shaming those people publicly.
security-assholes are a huge problem