Going Viral: Case Studies on the Impact of Protestware
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| author | Fan, Youmei Wang, Dong Wattanakriengkrai, Supatsara Damrongsiri, Hathaichanok Treude, Christoph Hata, Hideaki Kula, Raula Gaikovina |
| author_facet | Fan, Youmei Wang, Dong Wattanakriengkrai, Supatsara Damrongsiri, Hathaichanok Treude, Christoph Hata, Hideaki Kula, Raula Gaikovina |
| contents | 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. |
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| spellingShingle | Going Viral: Case Studies on the Impact of Protestware Fan, Youmei Wang, Dong Wattanakriengkrai, Supatsara Damrongsiri, Hathaichanok Treude, Christoph Hata, Hideaki Kula, Raula Gaikovina Software Engineering 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. |
| title | Going Viral: Case Studies on the Impact of Protestware |
| topic | Software Engineering |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.16715 |