I would say that homakov's angry and not very mature reaction to his warning being ignored just did a very big favor to a lot of rails developers, that reading

I would say that homakov's angry and not very mature reaction to his warning being ignored just did a very big favor to a lot of rails developers, that reading about his exploit on HN (and other places) will rush to check their websites and will fix a LOT of serious vulnerabilities they didn't have any idea they had. But which somobody could have already been secretly exploiting. Understandably, Github would have liked much more to be one of those companies that will be able to quietly fix this vulnerability without anybody knowing, but now that the damage to their image is done I really hope they'll not add to that damage by persisting in their banning of a 18 year old that acted irresponsibly yes, but maliciously - definitely not. From a PR perspective, I guess that having titles like "Silicon Valley company rewards Russian teenager who helps them eliminating a security risk" could even spin the episode in their favor.