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It's not, but I'm pretty sure it's also illegal to disable your brakes and then drive your car on a public road.



And thus, when it comes to software modification, the only reasonable course of action is make the equivalent of opening the hood illegal?


And yet the right to disassemble and replace the brakes on my car is socially and legally accepted. Why is it suddenly "scary" to modify the software?




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