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protestware

noun

Etymology

From protest + -ware.

  1. derived from prōtestor
  2. derived from protester
  3. suffixed as protestware — “protest + ware”

Definitions

  1. Software subverted to serve the ends of a political protest, for example by deleting…

    Software subverted to serve the ends of a political protest, for example by deleting files or displaying propaganda messages.

    • Commenting on the malicious code added to the “Vue-cli” application, GitHub user “nm17” said a continued expansion of protestware would erode public trust in open-source software.
    • In January, two other popular modules called colors and faker were intentionally sabotaged by their maintainer. Is protestware going to become a common problem?

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for protestware. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA