Evidence Threats

Cryptographic integrity does not eliminate bad evidence. ENTITY's evidence layer must defend against both byte tampering and semantic misrepresentation.

Threats

• Substituted source artifact with a valid signature over the wrong thing.
• Attester with no authority for the claim.
• External anchor substitution or stale anchor interpretation.
• Selective omission of contrary evidence.
• Reusing evidence for a broader claim than it supports.
• Confusing provenance with ownership/truth.
• Changing profile semantics after issuance.

Controls

Content-address evidence, record scope/source, verify attester authority, pin external references where possible, retain contrary/superseding evidence, preserve versioned interpretation rules and state conclusions narrowly.

Economic threat

Do not convert an evidence link into a monetary contribution weight without an explicit attribution method or term. Unknown value should remain unknown/zero rather than fabricated.