Understand vulnerabilities within an explicit mandate.
Develop methods for authorized investigation, bounded experiments and responsible disclosure. Shared information does not authorize access to another system.
OPTIONAL STARTING POSITION · AUTHORED DRAFT
Security research and dependable systems
Study how systems can protect the people and work that depend on them, while making their limits and failures easier to understand.
Values proposed for this field
- Permission with boundaries
- Security work should identify who authorized it, the systems and actions in scope, and the conditions for stopping or revising the work.
- A useful research question does not supply the authority needed to act on someone else's system.
- Claims that match the observation
- An assessment should make clear what was examined, what was observed and which properties remain unknown.
- A passing check or a demonstrated weakness provides bounded information, while decisions may depend on conditions the assessment did not cover.
- Repair with learning
- Investigation should support responsible repair and a revisable account of how failure became possible.
- Finding fault alone can leave the affected people without recovery and the wider system without a useful lesson.
Reconsider the profile when a protected interest is overlooked, authorized scope becomes unclear, a security claim exceeds the observations, or a repair reveals that the original account of failure was mistaken.
These meanings, values and practices can be rewritten. They are an invitation to inquiry, not a ratified constitution or a claim that a community has adopted them.
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TERMS
definitional vocabulary4@Vulnerability
@Threat
@Incident
@Asset
PRINCIPLES
guiding values3#Human Approval For Destructive
#Defensive Only
#Typed Findings
RULES
operational + metarules3!Rule Forensics Immutability
!Rule Await Approval Before Mitigation
!Rule Disclose Vulnerabilities Responsibly
Questions, observations, useful work, and different interpretations. Keep reasons and unresolved points visible.
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