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.
CURRENT STARTING POSITION · OPTIONAL AUTHORED DRAFT · v0.1.1
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.
Meanings in this field · v0.1.1
- Protected interest
- A person, capability, resource or relationship whose protection motivates an assessment, together with the harms and responsibilities relevant to that purpose.
- Threat scenario
- An account of how an actor, failure or environmental condition could harm a protected interest. Assumptions about intent, capability and likelihood should be stated where they apply.
- Vulnerability
- A property of a system or process that may enable harm under stated conditions. A claim of vulnerability should distinguish observed behavior from a possible route to impact.
- Incident account
- A revisable account of an observed event, its timeline, effects and possible causes, linked to available evidence and uncertainty. An attribution claim is one part requiring its own support.
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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