Activists are targeting Russians with open-source “protestware”
Published Date: 3/21/2022
Source: technologyreview.com
Russia’s biggest bank has warned its users to stop updating software due to the threat of “protestware”: open-source software projects whose authors have altered their code in opposition to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.  Most of the protestware simply displays anti-war, pro-Ukrainian messages when it is run, but at least one project had malicious code added…