Re: So much conflict...
"Backdoor. For good. Head explody want much.
It's not necessarily all good. Backdoors are easily removed from source code, especially now that everyone knows there is one there...
Perhaps instead of writing and publishing nearly-functional code to show how these things work, what would have been wrong with a PDF presentation? That would have been far harder to convert to a nearly workable ransomware.
Unfavorable Analogy
What he's done is a like leaving a mostly complete bomb lacking only a battery outside a battery shop with a sign on it saying "hey everyone, this is how a bomb is made, help yourself". And when someone's taken it he's got onto the local radio station and broadcast "it needs two AAs".
We'd all certainly wonder at the intelligence of someone who did that... There's no point making it that easy for the bad guys.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
