I just don't see the point of finding his name, place of work and throwing that in the article, when it was pretty clear that he wouldn't want that information

I just don't see the point of finding his name, place of work and throwing that in the article, when it was pretty clear that he wouldn't want that information to be public. It doesn't really add anything to the article and it just seems (to me) like it was done for no other reason than curry favor with the hacker crowd. Left a bad taste in my mouth.