English
protestware
From protest + -ware.
Formed from protest + -ware
Latin testis ‘witness’
Latin testor ‘to testify’
Latin prōtestor ‘to declare publicly’
Old French protester
Middle English protesten
English protest
Today it means
noun Software subverted to serve the ends of a political protest, for example by deleting files or displaying propaganda messages.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / protestware