[khedoros]

> The problem with making it toggleable is that a lot of people are going to flip that switch by accident

I think that's a smaller problem than not being able to flip the switch at all.

> someone will write spyware to flip it so that the computer becomes exploitable at a future date

...And I think that's inevitable, whether or not there's an official way to do it.

> Most non-game software works on WINE, or, worst case, within a virtual machine.

Wine's a wonderful piece of software and a great work-around in many situations, but I wouldn't want to rely on it as my only option.