Maybe I'm miss understanding things, but it seems like anyone can publish an exploit on the internet without being a crime. In the same way encryption is free speech.
It would seem unlikely this guy would be also logging into peoples boxes after this.
It seems a much tougher job to link something like this to an intentional unauthorized access.
At this point, we have no confirmed access via compromise.
Do you know of a specific case where the existence of a backdoor has been prosecuted without a compromise?
Who would have standing to bring this case? Anyone with a vulnerable machine? Someone with a known unauthorized access. Other maintainers of the repo?
IANAL but it is unclear that a provable crime has been committed here
