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Imagine there is a safe in your house. You ask your butler to update your documents that are inside the safe, but you forgot that the butler doesn't have the key. Instead of asking you for the key, the butler builds a dollhouse, puts a tiny safe inside the dollhouse, and then does some magic to bind the fates of the dollhouse safe and the real safe together. The butler then opens the dollhouse safe using the dollhouse key, and updates the tiny dollhouse documents, which causes the real documents in the real safe to update as well. This causes you great consternation.
You didn't forgot the butler doesn't have the key. When you hired the butler you already gave permission to let the butler cast that magic linking from the dollhouse to the safe already (so that you don't have to keep giving the butler the key when he needs to create new dollhouses that can move stuffs around the safe).
The issue here is that this butler don't have another separate security protocol to make sure you are the one who can limit what he does with the dollhouse. Any guest that are already invited to your house can ask the butler to do things, so they get to touch the contents of the safe even without the key to the safe.
Great explanation. The vintage imagery deserves the Luddite Seal of Approval. If you are not a teacher you might consider becoming one.
I accept your Seal gratefully 🙇♂️