Given how much Thomas contributes to this community, it seems fair to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he has good reasons to say no more than what he has said. Also, this comment alone probably counts for thousands of dollars worth of value to people running business on nginx. Thanks Thomas.

As to the average hacker, yes we want to know everything, but there are valid reasons not to be told everything. In this case, the information given is useful and sufficient, and the implications of what he said and how he said it are very clear indeed.