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
lol
too bad me posting this will bump the comment count though. maybe we should try to keep the vote count to 404