[saurik]

This is exactly correct: because average users are dumb, it is our duty as software developers to make decisions for them, and to use whatever practical encryption or legal copyright means available to us to ensure that users do not have the ability--by any means that could plausibly be under the control of the user--to access and modify (or even see!) the behavior of the software running on the hardware they think they "own"... anything less would be devastating for security and is too scary to contemplate.

[saurik]

So, I really wonder if the reason I am getting so many downvotes (I am only at 0 right now, but I have been as high as 3, so this comment has been pretty controversial so far) is because people are somehow failing to get my over-the-top / so-exaggerated-it-hurts sarcasm (which is a bit sad), or if people so truly agree with the premise that upstream developers are smart and users are dumb that they are angry at my strong characterization of it as categorically evil (which is downright terrifying).

[pseudalopex]

Maybe they just think your sarcasm detracts from the conversation.