Software has always been maleable. To think otherwise is a plain delusion. Go ahead and write a few bytes into a binary, or download some updates, and you'll see what I mean.
The issue here is the legal barriers which set up a delusion of nonmaleability. Copyright and IP treat software and ideas as if they were fixed, unmaleable things; they are not.
The issue here is the legal barriers which set up a delusion of nonmaleability. Copyright and IP treat software and ideas as if they were fixed, unmaleable things; they are not.