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EXECUTIVE SIGNAL SUMMARY
Delegated authority is now executing before governance is operationally present to observe, contextualize, or revoke. Across infrastructure, control systems, and identity, trust is conferred in advance and exercised autonomously. Withdrawal follows outside the path that enabled execution.
Execution precedes observation. Governance follows.
PRESSURE LEDGER
Update Infrastructure Execution
Automated update trust was extended to distributed infrastructure. During a valid trust window, execution occurred autonomously. Compromise surfaced only after payloads completed execution. Remediation required intervention outside the update channel, after the trust path had already been consumed.
The mechanism behaved correctly. Time, not intent, determined exposure.
Physical / Operational Control Systems
Remote control privileges are embedded directly into operational assets. Commands actuate immediately across distributed systems. By design, awareness follows actuation, not the reverse. Recovery requires manual override external to the executing control channel.
Control authority does not fail. It completes.
Identity Delegation
Pre-authorized identities persisted beyond human presence. Access continued without contemporaneous oversight. Visibility emerged only after actions had concluded. Revocation applied after the execution window had already closed.
Delegation remained intact throughout. Oversight did not.
UNRESOLVED QUESTION
If execution reliably precedes observation, and revocation remains external to the authority path, what is being governed?
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