Publication Type
Conference Proceeding Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
4-2024
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.
Keywords
Case Studies, Protestware, Software Ecosystems
Discipline
Information Security | Software Engineering
Research Areas
Software and Cyber-Physical Systems
Publication
ICSE-Companion '24: Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE/ACM 46th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion: Lisbon, April 14-20
First Page
308
Last Page
309
ISBN
9798400705021
Identifier
10.1145/3639478.3643086
Publisher
IEEE Computer Society
City or Country
Washington, DC
Citation
FAN, Youmei; WANG, Dong; WATTANAKRIENGKRAI, Supastsara; DAMRONGSIRI, Hathaichanok; TREUDE, Christoph; HATA, Hideaki; and KULA, Raula Gaikovina.
Going viral: Case studies on the impact of protestware. (2024). ICSE-Companion '24: Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE/ACM 46th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion: Lisbon, April 14-20. 308-309.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8924
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Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1145/3639478.3643086