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.
Hahaha! That's an interesting take on it! It's certainly fortunate that it happened earlier rather than now. Can you imagine if the bug was only exposed now? Yikes.