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Four governance conversations this week invoked assurance as a measurable security property. None defined it. TSEM v1.0 applied. The tracked assumption that control coverage improvements translate to assurance improvements has been downgraded to Functionally Unreliable Under Governance Conditions and logged as an escalation candidate. The definitional gap and its institutional consequences are documented below.
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