[PinkRidingHood]

"I am completely baffled by folks defending Marak, or putting any sort of blame on GitHub." Github's actions are unwarranted. (Marak should have at least been able to verify his ownership of the account and get it back)

"1,2,3" Honestly, these ARE better things to do (and probably more effective) than what Marak has done.

"replaced his code with an infinite loop that was a DoS attack" So far I haven't seen anything about this actually causing harm and denying service.

"The fact that his attack wasn't more severe (like, say, encrypting someone's hard drive) doesn't mean it wasn't an actual attack." The fact that his attack wasn't more severe shows that he wanted something that would make an impact without hurting anyone.

" guarantee no legal system is going to let an actual malicious act be defended by a license. " That's the legal system's problem. The license is the license. Somebody's violation of an EULA (because they didn't read it) may be in all ways justified, but that argument probably won't hold up in court.

I wish he did something less controversial while still impactful, but it is incorrect to put it under the same term used to describe real cyberattacks that severely harm and kill innocents.