Sasser worm caught!

The person that wrote the Sasser worm has confessed to being the author. It was a thoroughly irresponsible thing to have done, but I am still in two minds whether virus writers are actually helping the operating system manufacturers tighten up their systems. After all, Sasser has shown that exploitation of vulnerabilities in operating systems can wreak havok in this age of the connected systems.

Should Microsoft recruit these weasily-worm-writers?