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LRRK Method

The evidence methodBound the question. Review the evidence. Make the handoff practical.

Collect. Correlate. Validate. Review. Evidence supports deploy, update, operate or replace decisions for systems that sense, move, connect and act. A Product Security Passport is a scoped evidence record with review, limitations and reassessment triggers—not certification. Signing, publication and access depend on agreed scope; this page does not claim that every finding is signed or publicly issued.

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The November 1 operating model, standard v0.1, is proposed, not proven operating effectiveness. Keep researched mechanisms, controlled demonstrations, operational incidents and scoped LrrK findings separate. Testing and physical access require separately agreed authority, access, suitable capability and recovery/stop conditions.

List your device’s properties in the MITRE EMB3D™ mapper to see which threats and mitigations are worth asking about. The results are planning candidates, not findings. Current engagements focus on consumer robotics; suitability and any testing are confirmed during scope review.

Attributes →

Decision → evidence → handoff

  1. Decision and bounded question

    Name the deploy, update, operate or replace decision and the single question that matters to it.

  2. Scope and owner authority

    Declare hardware, firmware, configuration, time, sources and permitted access. Agree capability, recovery and stop conditions before testing.

  3. Source or test → claim

    Locate the evidence and method; keep researched mechanisms, demonstrations, operational incidents and scoped findings distinct. Separate observation from inference.

  4. Independent human review

    Challenge the claim, its support and its unknowns. No automatic security score substitutes for review.

  5. Decision record and practical handoff

    Deliver the reviewed conclusion and reusable evidence packet, with limitations, actions and reassessment triggers.

  6. Observed outcome and learning

    Where agreed and observed, record the outcome and what should change in the next question or review.

Evidence Brief: one bounded question, explicit source/method boundary, reviewed conclusion and reusable packet. Assurance Desk: recurring human-governed scoped review or cadence after scope review. Current consumer-robotics offers and terms remain unchanged.

Internal method vocabulary

Collector, Kestrel, Lab, Registry and Watch are subordinate method primitives for observation, correlation, validation, records and challenges—not five equal products or claims of deployed capability.

Assertion taxonomy

■ Fact
Directly supported by a located observation or evidence-backed validation within its scope.
◇ Inference
A reasoned reading of several facts. Must cite them and name its uncertainty.
▲ Judgment
An accountable human disposition, priority or materiality decision.
→ Recommendation
An advised action. Never disguised as an established condition.
○ Unknown
A preserved gap, insufficient-evidence state, or unresolved contradiction.

Evidence outcomes are preserved, including the negative ones

■ Established
Evidence supports the scoped condition.
□ Not established
Evidence did not establish it within scope. Not 'absent'. Not 'safe'.
⊗ Rejected
Controlled evidence disproved the stated hypothesis within scope.
◐ Inconclusive
Available evidence cannot resolve the hypothesis.
· Not evaluated
No authorized examination occurred.

Method, scope, time and limitations always accompany an outcome.

Confidence is not a security score

Confidence communicates the support behind an assertion. It does not rate how safe a subject is, and a version-level summary never conceals a low-confidence sentence underneath it.

High
Multiple consistent authoritative sources, or controlled validation with documented limits.
Moderate
Credible support exists, but meaningful limitations or alternatives remain.
Low
Preliminary, indirect, sparse or conflicting evidence.
Not rated
Confidence cannot be responsibly assigned.

Capability truth labels

The Atlas plates and lab demonstration interfaces are read-only designed workflows generated from fictional fixtures, not operational findings. Their controls do not collect, sign, publish, remediate or monitor evidence. This limitation does not describe the real request forms, account access or published research library. A citation, proposed method or demonstration alone never establishes a scoped LrrK finding.

A Passport is point-in-time and device-specific. It is not certification, approval, a warranty, or a guarantee of safety.