F. Massacci et al., "“Free” as in Freedom to Protest?," in IEEE Security & Privacy, vol. 20, no. 5, pp. 16-21, Sept.-Oct. 2022, doi: 10.1109/MSEC.2022.3185845.
This also discusses one of the "protestware" cases from the FSE'22 article. And it takes an even more protest-hostile approach. Some quotes:
"Open source software development is a technical job, which should make it kind of immune to bias. "
!!!!
I am sure @cbecker will love this quote.
And:
"Protestware should be treated as a new security problem by the security community that needs to be addressed."
Which, again, I mean, completely takes the ...HR perspective of protest as a problem.
@mfamelis how lovely. In 2022! Thank you for reading this so we don't have to.
This brings to mind Feenberg: "the differentiation of specializations gives specialists the illusion of pure, rational autonomy [which] masks [that] they represent the interests which presided over the underdetermined technical choices that lie in the past of their profession" (1999)
(and of course, #problemism)
Michális Famelis/Φαμέλης
Christoph Becker