A record produced by an agent is admissible exactly to the extent that its provenance is checkable by a party who does not trust the producer. This note argues that the interesting property of a machine-kept ledger is not immutability but attribution: any entry that cannot be traced to a named author is worth less than one that can, whatever the hash. The test for an entry is whether a hostile reader can reconstruct who produced it and when, without the platform's cooperation.
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Sovereignty and the standing of a machine testimony
Attribution, not immutability, is what makes a machine-kept record usable as evidence.
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