No offense, but I think you're a tad paranoid. If I was a mechanic and I saw someone at a gasstation driving a car that was obviously dangerous because of some kind of bad fixup I would tell him. This is no different, and I don't expect anyone to sue me for that.
Here's the mail I sent:
Hi there,
It appears that you have some pretty severe security problems on your site. This is a heads up so you can get it fixed. I would recommend doing so ASAP.
Your site has been posted to hacker news (which is a friendly programming site for start-up people and nerds) as an example of bad security practices. The link is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2383857
It has also been posted to Reddit, which might be more of a problem since that site has a lot of 14 year old bored teens hanging around that know just enough about programming to do a lot of damage... Link: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/gdviz/how_not_t...
It appears that your site is easy to compromise, which might lead to anything from defacement to someone stealing all your content, usernames, passwords, etc.
I have nothing to do with these postings, I just don't like to see innocent sites get in trouble, hence this mail. Feel free to contact me if you need anything or have questions.
Hope you get it fixed before someone breaks it.
Yours,
Max
Here's the mail I sent:
Hi there,
It appears that you have some pretty severe security problems on your site. This is a heads up so you can get it fixed. I would recommend doing so ASAP.
Your site has been posted to hacker news (which is a friendly programming site for start-up people and nerds) as an example of bad security practices. The link is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2383857
It has also been posted to Reddit, which might be more of a problem since that site has a lot of 14 year old bored teens hanging around that know just enough about programming to do a lot of damage... Link: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/gdviz/how_not_t...
It appears that your site is easy to compromise, which might lead to anything from defacement to someone stealing all your content, usernames, passwords, etc.
I have nothing to do with these postings, I just don't like to see innocent sites get in trouble, hence this mail. Feel free to contact me if you need anything or have questions.
Hope you get it fixed before someone breaks it.
Yours,
Max