Going Viral: Case Studies on the Impact of Protestware.
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| Title: | Going Viral: Case Studies on the Impact of Protestware. |
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| Authors: | Fan, Youmei1 fan.youmei.fs2@is.naist.jp, Wang, Dong2 d.wang@ait.kyushu-u.ac.jp, Wattanakriengkrai, Supatsara1 wattanakri.supatsara.ws3@is.naist.jp, Damrongsiri, Hathaichanok1 damrongsiri.hathaichanok.db5@is.naist.jp, Treude, Christoph3 ctreude@smu.edu.sg, Hata, Hideaki4 hata@shinshu-u.ac.jp, Kula, Raula Gaikovina1 raula-k@is.naist.jp |
| Source: | ICSE: International Conference on Software Engineering. 2024, p308-309. 2p. |
| Subjects: | Computer security vulnerabilities, Software ecosystems, Open source software, Computer software development, JavaScript programming language |
| Abstract: | 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 understand how the discourse about such an attack went viral, how it is received by the community, and whether developers respond to the attack in a timely manner. We study two notable protestware cases, i.e., Colors.js and es5-ext, comparing with discussions of a typical security vulnerability as a baseline, i.e., Ua-parser, and perform a thematic analysis of more than two thousand protest-related posts to extract the different narratives when discussing protestware. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Abstract: | 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 understand how the discourse about such an attack went viral, how it is received by the community, and whether developers respond to the attack in a timely manner. We study two notable protestware cases, i.e., Colors.js and es5-ext, comparing with discussions of a typical security vulnerability as a baseline, i.e., Ua-parser, and perform a thematic analysis of more than two thousand protest-related posts to extract the different narratives when discussing protestware. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| DOI: | 10.1145/3639478.3643086 |
