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Case Study: Mitigating Protestware Threats Through Open-Source Software Security

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Author: Mick Brady
Date Published: 1 January 2026
Read Time: 14 minutes

Organizations relying on open-source software (OSS) face a significant risk of being exposed to protestware—that is, software that has been modified by a developer to express a political or social viewpoint...

 

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