So that's not Microsoft, that's Wired doing that. Also it IS a hacker tool. It's a tool to automate the scraping of data and sending it somewhere.
He's a white hat hacker, releasing the tool to raise awareness. If he was a black hat hacker he'd be holding onto it and praying Microsoft goes through with release so he could use it to compromise systems.
I don't see any blame shifting at all
Where is the blame shifting? The article says they made no comment and the only MS quotes are just random pr feature blurbs
Yes the trigger is the last stop, and the safety stops the trigger from being pulled, but that's an absurdly unsafe state for leaving a gun unattended.
At the very very least that gun should not be cocked and the chamber shouldn't be loaded, but he's also leaving his gun in a random box so that's already terrible
lol
too bad me posting this will bump the comment count though. maybe we should try to keep the vote count to 404