'Protestware' is on the rise, with programmers self-sabotaging their own code. Should we be worried?

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-09-protestware-programmers-self-sabotaging-code
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"In March 2022, the author of node-ipc, a software library with over a
million weekly downloads, deliberately broke their code. If the code
discovers it is running within Russia or Belarus, it attempts to replace the
contents of every file on the user's computer with a heart emoji."

Open-source software dependencies are ubiquitous. Most, if not all,
open-source components are adopted and integrated without substantial or any
code review. Never mind the details, get that stack to work …

code own protestware