[sennight]

Huh, I guess we are truly screwed if that blog post seemed in any way reasonable to you. It makes me think of that time in the late 90s when there was a serious push to make "hacking tools" like disassemblers illegal... dunno if the present crowd would have the sense to combat that like the oldtimers did.

"...that limitation includes the fact that you aren’t allowed to de-compile, dis-assemble, de-obfuscate..."

I genuinely don't care if a company wants to trapdoor their support contract with something like that. But it would make more sense for them to properly structure things so that they'd be able to look forward to nuisance tickets, instead of being driven to trying to convince the infosec world that they should just trust you - and feel bad for not doing so in the first place. In any case, the thrust of the argument she is making isn't about support contracts - it is framed much more broadly, which is why this post made so much noise at the time.