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

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

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