To me, this is the right move. The skillset needed to build such RF endpoints is not that rare. Any decent EE college graduate should be able to rig one up with an off the shelf software-defined radio and some literature review. If all they did were to build it for laughs and boasts I would hope they would just be yelled at and threatened with a sizeable fine next time they try such spectrum violations.

But they apparently phished a lot of information with the intent to defraud folks, which in my book completely changes the proper response. My 2c.