I don't think the examples are meant as actual real world things, but rather abstractions to help reason about the problem.
The most important thing about the halting problem, is that Turing gave an example of a computational problem that is unsolvable, thereby proofing that from all possible computational problems, some of them are be unsolvable.
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I don't think the examples are meant as actual real world things, but rather abstractions to help reason about the problem.
The most important thing about the halting problem, is that Turing gave an example of a computational problem that is unsolvable, thereby proofing that from all possible computational problems, some of them are be unsolvable.