This reminds me of a time at Red Hat when a worm was going around and infecting Red Hat systems, one of the engineers reverse engineered the worm and wanted to release it in the wild to fix the bug, legal wouldn’t let them. I think legal was right (for a public company) but this kind of shows the actual right response, in my opinion.

Keep in mind in like 1999, you didn’t expect upgrades via package managers online for most large customers so this was an appealing release vector.