I'll start the discussion off with this...

We likely can't unfreeze the frozen/unprotected accounts, at least not without a single hard fork to release them all, or individual hard forks to relese them individually...and there is no guarantee that the crackers aren't "just waiting" for something like this to be done so they can run an already staged script to wipe the accounts with additional cracked (found collisions) 64 bit passphrases. So it's near impossible to actually get frozen funds back to legitimate account owners in this way.

By leaving them frozen, or burning them, or utilizing them in anyway other than returning them to legitimate owners, we as a community are depriving people of their signa...making us no better than the crackers. The community as a whole cannot profit in anyway or we become the bad guys.

So, with the ethical implications on the table...technologically speaking....what does that leave us with for options?

Leave them frozen forever making the whole community the bad guys?

Release them, returning the responsibility of account security to the owners, including possible theft by the crackers, but leaving the community's hands clean?

I believe the devs had good intentions...and were stuck with the task of making a choice between two bad options...both having ethical implications.