Github was right to ban the guy. He did hack them roundly after all. On the other hand, he did it in a largely non-malicious way and even managed to expose tho

Github was right to ban the guy. He did hack them roundly after all. On the other hand, he did it in a largely non-malicious way and even managed to expose those Rails knuckleheads for the greater good. Github should find a way to let him back in, intentionally. Perhaps they could offer him to create a new user and they could give him some of his repositories back (if any were important). Edit: It appears Github has in fact reinstated him.