Be more cynical.
It can be morally and legally wrong to persecute the researchers all it wants to be, but historically might makes right and the state has an ever growing monopoly on force; which I have no opinion on as to whether it is good or bad - but it needs to in order to facilitate it's survival in an ever more connected and delicate yet growlingly chaotic world.
You live in a world of laws prescribed to you at their discretion.
They can and will justify it infinitely and such legal actions are ramping up exceedingly since 2020 when it comes to the researchers.
I always wondered when they would come for the researchers, many of whom I find derivative projects of during incident reports. Many of the nation state actor and cybercriminal economy is fueled by the intellectualism of FOSS and university projects. It is only logical to assume Microsoft, Universities and the like don't take much of an approach in hosting such things like write-ups or FOSS cybersec tooling because they can offer the information of the authors on a silver platter to the feds when the time is right.
All those inclined to or capable of writing such things could thus be swept up in a targeted persecution from three letter agencies across NATO, forcing them either into labour or giving them fabricated charges at a show trial. You can consider the implications of a "Streisand" but the psychological value of such an event would outweigh any negative implications for such an operation.
Most of the security apparatus in the west are dull, but you have to understand how Machiavellian the people who give them the orders are.