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• Open Source Hacktivism, Open Source Gains Traction in the Enterprise, and More: Open Source Matters
  8 projects | dev.to | 15 May 2022

  Today, with an ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, some open source maintainers have taken it upon themselves to protest the war via changes to their code that express anti-war rhetoric via messages that display when the software is run. However, one maintainer in particular took it to the next level. Brandon Nozaki Miller, published a library on GitHub named peacenotwar that simply printed an anti-war message to the computer it was run on. This package is harmless on its own, but things got interesting when he included this package as a dependency in the node-ipc module he maintains. Users who downloaded the latest version of node-ipc to a machine in Russia would be subject to complete data destruction. Miller defended the act by claiming that this is all documented publicly and that users who don’t want this installed on their machine should lock their dependencies to older versions.

• node-ipc go brrrr
  1 project | /r/linuxmemes | 19 Mar 2022

  apparently an NGO working in belarus got affected

• American NGO using node-ipc lost 30k files detailing war crimes
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Mar 2022

  From that reddit thread, here is the github issue the paste originated from.

  https://github.com/RIAEvangelist/peacenotwar/issues/45

• Human Rights Organization in Ukraine was the victim of a malware attack by an "activist" targeting Russian and Belorusian IPs
  1 project | /r/ukraine | 18 Mar 2022

  the repo where this issue was posted simply created a .txt file on the user's machine, doesn't wipe anything: https://github.com/RIAEvangelist/peacenotwar/issues/45

• Open Source Maintainer Sabotages Code to Wipe Russian, Belarusian Computers
  16 projects | /r/worldnews | 18 Mar 2022

  This headline is fucking yikes, the node package that they're talking about is fully open source and does nothing but make a text file in 3 locations. It does nothing remotely close to "wiping" computers, lmfao.

• BIG sabotage: Famous npm package (node-ipc) deletes files to protest Ukraine war
  5 projects | /r/programming | 18 Mar 2022

  His actions destroyed over 30,000 messages & files detailing war crimes committed by Russian in Ukraine belonging an American NGO that monitors human rights infringements in eastern Europe. Cool protest, bro.

• Un paquet npm compromis par l'auteur efface les fichiers sur les ordinateurs russes et biélorusses lors de l'installation, pour protester contre l'invasion de l'Ukraine par la Russie
  2 projects | /r/france | 17 Mar 2022

  Première victime collatérale

• Developers of node-ipc edited the software so that anyone with a russian or belarusian IP would get their drive scrubbed clean of data, drama ensues.
  3 projects | /r/internetdrama | 17 Mar 2022

  Links to drama: https://github.com/RIAEvangelist/peacenotwar/issues, https://github.com/RIAEvangelist/node-ipc/issues

• My entire PC got wiped Do not download
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Mar 2022

  The package uses https://github.com/RIAEvangelist/peacenotwar to deliver the message.

  But I don't understand why/how it would wipe the PC. Unless I missed something, the code from the package does not delete anything.

  > This code serves as a non-destructive example of why controlling your node modules is important. It also serves as a non-violent protest against Russia's aggression that threatens the world right now.

  Nah, the author knew it's would be controversial. The first sentence is there as an excuse.

• Node-ipc supply chain attack: peacenotwar
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Mar 2022
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