I didn't know about this history.
Are there any reference of this event here in bitcointalk forum? Something written by Satoshi?
That hacker is not so evil. He exposed the bug in a time when things could be easily fixed. Thank God that happened long ago, and not recently.
that is just what i thought. if that would happen now, that would be the END and with the pace the bitcoin community is going the fix would have taken a good amount of time