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“Free” as in Freedom to Protest?

F Massacci, A Sabetta, J Mirkovic… - IEEE Security & …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… Intentional bugs introduced by protestware can make this analysis vastly more difficult and
inaccurate by explicitly targeting the corner cases to further impede detection. Furthermore, …

Ethical Considerations Towards Protestware

M Cheong, RG Kula, C Treude - IEEE Software, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Protestware, … Protestware is unique, in that the power of responsibility is placed on individuals
(ie, sometimes a single library maintainer). In this work, we carefully examine Protestware

In war and peace: The impact of world politics on software ecosystems

RG Kula, C Treude - Proceedings of the 30th ACM Joint European …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
… We present two cases where the protestware does not have malicious intent, but aims at
increasing awareness. For the first case, the same maintainer of the node-ipc library then …

Going Viral: Case Studies on the Impact of Protestware

Y Fan, D Wang, S Wattanakriengkrai… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Maintainers are now self-sabotaging their work in order to take political or economic stances,
a practice referred to as "protestware". In this poster, we present our approach to …

[HTML][HTML] Are Software Updates Useless against Advanced Persistent Threats? Considering the conundrum of software updates.

F Massacci, G di Tizio - cacm.acm.org
A dilemma derived from Shakespeare’s Hamlet is increasingly haunting company and
security researchers:“to update or not to update, this is the question.” From the perspective of …

Ensuring the Security of Open Python Projects: The Challenge of Assessing Potentially Destructive Functionality

S Rakovsky, S Magomedov - International Journal of Open Information …, 2023 - injoit.ru
… Одна из мотиваций – следование протестным движениям (protestware). В рамках
protestware разработчик недоволен определенной общественной ситуацией. В лучшем …

In War and Peace: The Impact of World Politics on Software Ecosystems

R Gaikovina Kula, C Treude - arXiv e-prints, 2022 - ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
… Yet, there is a growing concern related to maintainers using their influence to make
political stances (ie, referred to as protestware). In this paper, we reflect on the impact of world …

From the War in Ukraine to Cannabis Use: Exploring a Diverse Set of Papers

B Penzenstadler, A Serebrenik, M Staron… - IEEE Software, 2023 - computer.org
… In the scenario that the authors call “malignant protestware,” a … In the scenario that the authors
call “benign protestware,” … to investigate the effectiveness of protestware and its impact as …

[PDF][PDF] TECHNICAL AND LEGAL MEANS OF LIMITING ACCESS TO OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE

Я Юсин - Наука і техніка сьогодні, 2023 - perspectives.pp.ua
… Regarding open source projects, there were cases of so-called “protestware”: adding
certain functionality to the project, which was executed when launched on Russian computers (…

Nonviolence goes digital: a research and policy agenda

R Baldoli, C Hermanin, CM Radaelli - 2023 - cadmus.eui.eu
What is the relationship between nonviolence and the digital world? To map a possible
agenda for research and policy advocacy, we start from the observation that today there is no …

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