The car example is a terrible example. I only used it because it's a well known example. But I'm actually thinking about digital computer techonology. In compu

The car example is a terrible example. I only used it because it's a well known example. But I'm actually thinking about digital computer techonology. In computers the difference between able and allowed works very differently. Specially in software-only contexts (hardware will likely remain hackable). I'm trying to draw attention to the software-only case (which is also what the article's about). My nightmare scenario is that by some means, things like web-inpsector tools cease to work, or require a licensed regulated permission to be opened or something. A technology like WASM, it seems to me, accomplishes a similar goal without trying to do it. The goal of WASM is completely unrelated to restricting inspect-ability, which in turn reduces the ability to modify, yet it manages to do this, it raises the bar for changing webpages.