Why is beside the point. I'm not making a judgment about morality or motivation. I said that one of the few concrete examples in the blog post was factually wro

Why is beside the point. I'm not making a judgment about morality or motivation. I said that one of the few concrete examples in the blog post was factually wrong. It shouldn't be used as an example for the point the author is trying to prove. Also, for proving the point of the blog post, the example you showed instead would have been wrong in the same way as the original example from the blog post. The point was about writing to the (theoretical) padding between fields. Your example would still have written to this padding (if it existed) in the same way. And if this padding did exist, it still wouldn't have been illegal, in either example.