For all the moaning and complaining I've seen on HN over the persistence of this topic, the conversation still hasn't gotten loud enough, and hasn't gone on long enough.
As much as MA rubs me the wrong way, I applaud him here. What an incredibly non-trivial and important use of his public platform with those guests.
I'll jump on the respect train. Michael Arrington is an ideal person to influence people here. We all may have similar convictions, but he isn't just influencing software development, he's influencing software that is at a seminal stage, making it more likely that version 1 of the next Facebook clone will take security into account.
If PG and a few others joined with him, there would be momentum, just like that.
As much as MA rubs me the wrong way, I applaud him here. What an incredibly non-trivial and important use of his public platform with those guests.