Or, in other words, some programs try to take their customers computers hostage.<p>Seriously, who would be willing to run software if they knew it would try to do everything to destroy your system (read the comments above about actual physical damage) when you try to understand it?<p>If you run the software on your system, it is yours. Debugging is, per ECJ decision, a human right. Your software, your right to take it apart and try to understand it.<p>I don’t get how people can accept to run such hostile software.