protestware
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Software subverted to serve the ends of a political protest, for example by deleting files or displaying propaganda messages.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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?"
- "In fact, what we've seen over the last week is something called “protestware”, and that is some damaging and non-damaging code put into open source projects, specifically focused on organizations in Russia and Belarus. Now, they are making a statement, and that falls under what we call “hacktivism”."
- "developers and project maintainers themselves sometimes engage in this activity as a form of protest or advocacy for their beliefs. This form of hijacking, often referred to as protestware is a concerning trend because it can be difficult for an organisation to recognise it before it’s too late."
- "The roots of protestware date back to the early days of computing. However, recent events in the Russo-Ukrainian war has^([sic]) sparked a new wave of protestware."