> If you do modify your device in a way that it can't be guaranteed that the updates will secure the device anymore (which shouldn't be an issue for the vast ma

> If you do modify your device in a way that it can't be guaranteed that the updates will secure the device anymore (which shouldn't be an issue for the vast majority of user modifications), then you simply lose that "warranty" for updates, or the company is no longer responsible to keep you up to date. I'm not saying that the updates must work on modified devices, I'm more saying that the incentive changes to preventing reverse engineering so that exploits don't happen and updates don't need to happen. Preventing that sort of user level modification, combined with heavy obfuscation and locked down firmwares does prevent reverse engineering by most amateurs and many professionals without a near-unlimited budget. If you can't read the executable for the IPC service, you can't reverse engineer it and you can't find exploits in it.