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      <image:caption>The map of controls is not the territory of enforcement.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The market is dividing along one axis: before versus after.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The alert arrives after the harm: that&apos;s the fallacy.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The statute makes post-hoc governance a liability, not a defense.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Monitoring tells you it happened; a constraint stops it from happening.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Non-repudiation is structural, not promised: the receipt carries the proof.</image:caption>
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