Not all of us are professional virus analysts. No need to mock him, his post is worth reading for mere amateurs like myself.

True. Just find it odd that this gets posted on the official blog. Interesting indeed, but a bit careless.

How did he get pwned or not take necessary precautions? He could have re-imaged it after running the virus to prevent something like this from happening (assuming that's how it did), but it was all in a virtual machine, so there wasn't much risk to not doing it.

Disclaimer: I'm not a professional virus analyst.

Why amateur? He was running it in virtual machine to see what the virus is actually doing.