Name The Question Rather Than The Concept: A Surprise Is An Action Outside The Grant, So The Assessment Is Falsifiable, And The Scan Cannot Run From Outside
Summary
The memo asks for a name for the gap, a public site that lets anybody measure their own, and the commercial model. Tested against the corpus, every clean naming candidate is obscure and every familiar one collides, so the recommendation is not to coin a noun: the technical term stays excess authority and the public phrase is a sentence, what you authorised and never asked for. Two ideas do real work. A surprise is an action outside the grant and never a wrong action inside it, which makes the assessment falsifiable: zero surprises over a period means the measurement held. And the precedent services could scan you from outside, while agent exposure cannot be seen from outside, so the site hosts the questions and the interpretation and the measurement runs in the user's environment. The assessment expires when a vendor moves a default; the commercial model is free through level three and paid where somebody's own environment is modelled. Built here as /authorised/.
Key concepts
- What you authorised and never asked for — the page, built
- The surprise definition — the falsifiable validity test
- The assessment expires — three sources of movement
- The ladder — free through level three
- Excess authority — the settled technical term
Key ideas
- Unauthorised is wrong on the first word: the grant is exactly what was authorised.
- A coined noun asks the reader to learn something before they can care.
- An action inside the grant is never a surprise, however wrong it was.
- The site cannot scan anybody, and that is the privacy story: it cannot see you even if it wanted to.
- Step three is the test of the whole thing: name three products and see a grant you did not know you had.
- The site collects nothing by default and offers a submission of counts only.
On this site
Adds /authorised/ (index.html, app.js, README.md with the precedents record), assets/authorised.css, and the bench entry.