They had the power to abuse that data and ship malware to millions, but decided just to give people a scare.
That’s just the average grey-hat, or how most hackers were in the 90s.
Compared with the profit-obsessed and abusive hackers and companies on the web today, which try to shove actual malware, sometimes installers with tons of preselected options, sometimes bitlocker, they’re not bad.
Deleting the partition table is not grey hat, it's black hat. The bad guy in a Western isn't suddenly neutral just because he isn't literally Josef Stalin.
Linking may not imply endorsement but their twitter account clearly shows they want the public hate as attention, so whether you want it or not, you're doing them a favour by naming them, even if to scold them.
This is akin to associating every mass killing with a terrorist organisation (whether accurate or not) and showing detailed videos of those killings when the entire point of a terrorist organisation is spreading terror.
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To anyone upset: At least we didn't decide to steal all your shit. Because you ran that as admin. We totally could've installed a rootkit.