You bought it. Who controls it?
More thoughts on innovation from Edward Tenner, June 2003 http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2003/jul/01/life/20030701lif4.html
…The tamperproofing that some technology companies are now putting in place threatens a tradition of user-centered innovation. Incapacitating designs will slam the door on these vital superthinnkers.
...Incapacitation would also limit the academic training of the companies' future technical staff. Freedom to tinker - defined by Felten as "your freedom to understand, discuss, repair, and modify the technology devices that you own" - benefits technology industries most of all. Even the film industry needs young people who have had free access to the nuts and bolts of digital graphics and special effects, and I'll bet that Microsoft doesn't make its young Xbox game-programming recruits sign an affidavit that they have never violated an end-user license agreement. New hardware security is manifestly a good idea for servers with sensitive information. There is a good case for new levels of protection… for those vulnerable sites. But if they extend incapacitation too far, the builders of the Trojan mouse may find themselves caught in their own trap.