It's a very bizarre read. Not sure how any of their logic follows at all.

Please elaborate a little more as your criticism is unsubstantiated.

The article makes it seem like he's a hero who was intent on stopping WannaCry, so should be pardoned for crimes he commited when he was younger. The reality is that he had no idea what registering the hard coded domain name would do, and got lucky that it was an ineffective method of VM detection that was effectively a kill switch. For all he knew, registering the domain name could have made the malware self-destruct and delete all the encrypted data. People shouldn't be pardoned for accidentally doing something good.

> People shouldn't be pardoned for accidentally doing something good.

Following the same reasoning we should remove the nobel prize to Alexander Fleeming because trying it was "just good luck". In the end we would all live in a ungrateful and miserable society.

This sends a strong message that you must care just for your own problems and let the other people fall, or you have a fair probability of be punished by being a smartass

Sarah Jeong op-ed.