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Notes from the engine room.

Drafts appear here as they stabilize. Nothing is published until it is verified, same rule as the badges.

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Why honest grading beats yet another certification

Certifications grade paperwork once a year. Evidence grades the machine, continuously.

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02

The $10 attack: BadRAM and the cost of breaking a TEE

What commodity hardware means for the threat model.

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03

Reading a Confidior badge: six dimensions, one score

A field-by-field walkthrough of an engine-generated badge.

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04

The neutrality covenant, in writing

Why the grader must not sell the thing it grades.

to write
05

Renting TEE hardware: what it costs and what you learn

Phala, Cherry, AWS, VoltageGPU: field notes from the hardware runbook.

to write
06

Boot-time vs runtime: what each measurement can and cannot prove

Two measurements, two promises, one honest score.

to write
07

OpenCVE: the feed we evaluate against

Evaluated, not ingested, and why that distinction is the whole point.

to write