Marak Squires is the maintainer of the ‘colors’ and ‘faker’ libraries. The two projects accumulate ~23 million weekly downloads and support ~23,000 projects. In January of 2022, he intentionally introduced an infinite loop that bricked every project relying on either one of these libraries. Consequently, GitHub suspended the developer’s account. The justification provided by the developer is one of retaliation to “Fortune 500s (and other smaller sized companies)” who extensively rely on cost-free and community-driven...
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