Yeah, everyone is freaking out about the (not very efficient as I can see) DDoS attempt, but it was a response to a totally unprovoked attempt to deanon the maintainer which could cost them freedom at least - and us all the only more or less reliable paywall remover.
I tend to think that being an arsehole when provoke is still being an arsehole. There are other ways to defend against such an attack than sending the boys¹ round to play bully², that was no better than throwing bricks through all their windows and I assume that we are civilised enough here that wouldn't condone that.
I particularly dislike the fact that I was, unbeknownst to me at the time, was coopted as part of that brigade of brick throwers.
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[1] a significant chuck of the internet
[2] beat up his online resources
I don't really care about the motivation? Malware is malware.