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I don't think that analogy works here, since the things we're worried about are binary states. Either you can run arbitrary software, or you can not, etc.

>>Karuna+(OP)
Perhaps a better analogy then is securing the noose around the neck of the prisoner, but not yet releasing the trapdoor.

>>dane-p+21
...and the people who work on "progressing" this technology are helping to make the nooses better and also putting them on their own necks. (I've used that analogy before. I think it's a great one.)