[zozbot234]

Plenty of existing ransomwares delete user files on everything-but-RU machines. Perhaps the maintainer of this package subscribes to the old view that "turnabout is fair play".

[schoen]

"Some people in my country were victimized by organized crime in another country, so it's turnabout, and hence fair play, for me to victimize other people in that country"?

"Some people in my country were victimized by organized crime in another country, and that country's government didn't try to stop the criminal activity, so it's turnabout, and hence fair play, for me to victimize other people in that country"?

[sva_]

But that shouldn't be an excuse to sink to their level.

[labster]

They haven’t really sunk to their level unless there’s an npm module to bomb hospitals I don’t know about. Still bad to target civilians, though.

[sva_]

Well I meant the level of ransomware authors and the like.

[foverzar]

> delete user files on everything-but-RU machines

Wasn't that about Cyrillic keyboard layout? Russia don't own neither Cyrillics, nor Russian language.

[Jimbonius]

But whatabout the other guys????

Are you a child?

[zozbot234]

Good question, you should ask the maintainer that. I'm speculating about their possible motive for abusing the FLOSS ecosystem in such a destructive way, not trying to justify their behavior or anything.