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Protestware taps npm to call out wars in Ukraine, Gaza

ReversingLabs researchers have discovered npm packages that hide scripts broadcasting messages of peace related to the conflicts in Ukraine and in Israel and the Gaza Strip.

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Protestware - developers deliberately sabotaging their own software libraries as a means of protest.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/27/protestware-code-sabotage/

First time I heard this term.

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#tech #opensource #foss #protestware

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GitHub - sweetalert2/sweetalert2:

https://github.com/sweetalert2/sweetalert2

GitHub - sweetalert2/sweetalert2: ✨ A beautiful, responsive, highly customizable and accessible (WAI-ARIA) replacement for JavaScript's popup boxes. Zero dependencies. 🇺🇦

✨ A beautiful, responsive, highly customizable and accessible (WAI-ARIA) replacement for JavaScript's popup boxes. Zero dependencies. 🇺🇦 - GitHub - sweetalert2/sweetalert2: ✨ A beautiful, respo...

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Software Sabotage: Lily Hay Newman discusses the threat of protestware on the open source ecosystem https://buff.ly/35h63fd #protestware #OpenSource #SoftwareDevelopment #FOSS #security #SoftwareSupplyChain
The Threat of Open Source Protestware

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"Longer term, it’s likely these weaponizations are like spitting into the wind: The downsides of vandalizing open source projects far outweigh any possible benefit, and the blowback will ultimately damage the projects and contributors responsible. By extension, all of open source is harmed."

https://opensource.org/blog/open-source-protestware-harms-open-source

#protestware #opensource

Open source ‘protestware’ harms Open Source

There is a new development that directly impacts the open source community, and it warrants a new commentary. Angry maintainers have started adding code to a small number of open source repositories to protest against the war.

Russia is now experiencing "protestware" attacks! Here's what you need to know about this interesting development!

#news #TechNews #Ukraine️ #RussianUkrainianWar #protestware #opensource #javascript #UkraineCrisis

https://youtu.be/IKs_CRpbdaE

Russia is now experiencing "protestware" attacks!

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Daily Podcast: Russia is now experiencing "protestware" attacks! Here's what you need to know about this interesting development!

#news #TechNews #Ukraine️ #RussianUkrainianWar #protestware #opensource #javascript #UkraineCrisis #podcast

https://soundcloud.com/nickaesp/protestware

Russia is now experiencing "protestware" attacks!

Here's what you need to know about this interesting development!

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Heard that node-ipc #protestware went ballistic and destroyed all american NGO data that were documenting war crimes in #Ukraine. Can anyone confirm or disprove this?

https://snippet.host/kvcb

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We are an American NGO based in Washington, D.C. that monitors human rights infringements by authoritarian regimes in Belarus, Russia and other post-Soviet s...