Article 5XCJT Activists are targeting Russians with open-source "protestware" (Technology Review)

Activists are targeting Russians with open-source "protestware" (Technology Review)

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MIT Technology Review has takena brief look at open-source projects that have added changes protestingthe war in Ukraine and drawn some questionable conclusions:

No tech firm has gone that far, but around two dozen open-sourcesoftware projects have been spotted adding code protesting the war,according to observers tracking the protestwaremovement. Open-source software is software that anyone can modifyand inspect, making it more transparent-and, in this case at least,more open to sabotage.
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