Well its a bit of both. Goldman claimed at trial that the code uploaded could be used to manipulate the markets. If a python erlang bridge can be used to do tha

Well its a bit of both. Goldman claimed at trial that the code uploaded could be used to manipulate the markets. If a python erlang bridge can be used to do that it is certainly a new one on me. So what he did was wrong. And Goldman was trying to send a message to people leaving. At the time people were leaving their HFT group and they wanted to do anything possible to stem that. At best this should have been a civil lawsuit. The public almost certainly has no interest in what happened.