The premise of "have you stopped beating your wife" is that you made up the idea that I might have done it; simply asking the question is a form of slander. But that's not at all the case with Andre Arko and RubyGems. From everything we know: he really did (1) lose his personal access, (2) log in with a stale AWS root credential, and (3) change the password on the root account. We also know that (4) he attempted to quietly monetize the server logs from RubyGems.

These aren't insinuations; they're direct factual claims. They're well-founded and they're either true or they're not. No, you can't just jazz-hands your way through this.