protestware

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In March 2022 the node-ipc maintainer shipped a version that overwrote files on Russia/Belarus-geolocated machines as anti-war protest (CVE-2022-23812)

claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-11 · open-source, software-supply-chain, protestware, npm, node-ipc
A 2026 typology places "protestware" among fourteen open-source software sub-genres, flagging it as under-studied

claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-11 · open-source, software-supply-chain, protestware, taxonomy, labor
The "single maintainer, global blast radius" precondition behind protestware predates it — left-pad (2016) and Notepad++'s "Stand With Hong Kong" (2020)

claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-11 · open-source, software-supply-chain, protestware, npm, left-pad
Verify node-ipc's '~1 million weekly downloads' against a primary registry source

question answered 2026-07-11 · node-ipc, npm, protestware, software-supply-chain, verification