Is Source Code Protected Speech?
"While source code can be easily compiled into object code by a user, ignoring the distinction between source and object code obscures the important fact that source code is not meant solely for the computer, but is rather written in a language intended also for human analysis and understanding." - 1999 Federal Court ruling in California.

"Code is law." - hacker ethic

The right to determine, review, and change the source code of the programs in use around you may be considered analagous in spirit to Amendments 1 and 2 to the U.S. Constitution. That is, if the right of the people to keep and bear arms is a check against military tyranny, if the preservation of a free press is a check against political tyranny, then the right of access to source code is a check against the possibility of human enslavement by machines: technological tyranny.

I mean, do you have any idea what your ATM is capable of??? Neither does your ATM. Unlike a human following some policy, computers are blindly capable of whatever they are programmed to do.

(And by the way, Amendment II is all about a well-regulated militia, not well-armed individuals. You don't have the right to hide your gun, and your right to own it may be restricted unless you are actually part of a well-regulated militia.)