> This research had the potential to cause harm to people
I don't buy it, and you fail to back that claim up at all.
I don't buy it, and you fail to back that claim up at all.
As to the backdated review now being undertaken, as far as I'm concerned that decision is squarely on the maintainers. (Honestly it comes across as an emotional outburst to me.)
Sure, but I'm still going to be pretty annoyed with you. And if you've wasted my time by messing with a system or process under my control then I'm probably going to block you from that system or process.
As a really prosaic example, I've blocked dozens - if not hundreds - of recruiter email addresses on my work email account.
Nor is breaking my computer monitor.
Theft was meant as an example of a type of harm, not a complete list of all types of harm.
Something doesn’t have to be illegal to be harmful.