They certainly seemed to be very much against selling it to private individuals (or were when I asked many years ago). I guess unless you've got a CV which say

They certainly seemed to be very much against selling it to private individuals (or were when I asked many years ago). I guess unless you've got a CV which says "presented at Defcon and Blackhat, five times" or "currently work at {big infosec company}", even if you can afford it the answer will be "nope". The end result for me was that I bought a Mac Mini and a copy of Hopper and Synalyze It. My entire reverse-engineering of the Polaroid film recorder driver (and the resulting Linux port) was done by reversing the driver DLL in Hopper and shimming the driver and ASPI calls with PyDbg. I keep looking away for a month or so and finding a new version of Hopper with shiny new features to play with...