I'm not blaming the victim.

I am saying that, yes, he did something stupid and got spanked for it.

I'm also saying (and in my highly downvoted follow-up providing additional examples of) that it's reasonably if not highly plausible that the attack was wholly scripted and automated.

I've been burned myself -- by systems stuff as well as meatspace events. Very often the key finding of a particular experiment is "don't do that".

That was my point.