This is a great and often overlooked/undervalued point. Purposefully sabotaging machines through code repositories should be considered spreading malware & be subject to civil & criminal lawsuits.
Edit: I think I would actually like to see a lawsuit come out of this example.
Targeting certain countries could be considered as act of terror. And reasonable standard in USA is to answer this with either drone strike to home or place of work of the terrorist in question.
Edit: I think I would actually like to see a lawsuit come out of this example.