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Shango MID — the published transparency record. The evidence page for my own
write-governance layer: what it does, what it does not establish, and every
defect found in it, dated, with who found it and what changed. There are more
things on it the software cannot do than things it can. That is deliberate — a
control whose limits you cannot inspect is a reassurance, not a control.
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