I don't think it was a deliberate swipe at "the tools" either. Stuff happens.
We've had a nice long uninterrupted run, but this sort of change isn't exactly unprecedented (and it was only new installations anyway). The switch from a per device PID to a per book PID had everyone up in arms about how to decrypt books from Kindle Keyboards for a good long while. It was only after that change that the K4PC solution was arrived at (K4Mac resisted for quite a while longer). For a while there, the K4PC method was the only option available to those with KKs. This is a hiccup by comparison.
To be honest, I'm a little surprised the tools' effectiveness hasn't been broken a lot more often along the way--by sheer accident.
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