Look I’ll be honest, a CEO telling his workers their (valid) opinions are bullshit and looser thinking is absolutely unacceptable, even putting the context of security (or lack thereof) aside. If you refuse to listen to your engineers as a leadership, you have failed miserably.

Too stupid? Doubt it. He says what he needs to profit his company and himself.
Idiots are any people actually listening.

* Well, that’s overly harsh. Not everyone is a techie, can’t expect the average person to know what this means.

I identify as braindead, your generalised labels offend me