> Does the firm writing the software actually allow this? Plenty of software sold to the government comes with contractual stipulations that it may not be reverse-engineered, inspected, or otherwise second-guessed.

So don't accept contracts with those stipulations.

> ...Albeit with mixed results. You can't avoid bias. You can just choose whether you want to bias towards justice, or rigidity.

That's my point though. Bias we can actually inspect and understand and iterate on is better than bias that we have no insight into at all.