Verification Record
AOS-SCN-2026-001 · v1.0

The Unasked Jurisdiction Question

An assessment of Recommendation 2.8 of the ANU National Security College report Connected & protected: building Australia’s submarine cable resilience. The report recommends that operators be required to locate a network operations centre in Australia, and states that this would subject cable operations to Australian requirements “rather than those of another country”. Eighteen printed pages later it records that the same instrument, imposed by the United States, “would potentially give the US Government greater access to the systems”. This record pins the assessed report, the built PDF, and its timestamp.

Reference
AOS-SCN-2026-001
Assessed
14 August 2026
Version
v1.0
The chain

Verification chain

Four things are pinned, and each can be checked independently of the others.

The assessment PDF. SHA-256: 03272d53f23ac766ccb0b3796db52e2e891ff9c955c724bc43824b44922e3dbc

Download the file and run shasum -a 256 over it. If the value differs, the file is not the one struck here.

The timestamp. The receipt AOS-SCN-2026-001-v1.0.pdf.ots is an OpenTimestamps proof over exactly those bytes, submitted to four calendars on 15 August 2026 and pending confirmation in the Bitcoin blockchain at the time of publication. It establishes that the file existed no later than the moment it was stamped. It establishes nothing about whether the file is correct.

Receipt SHA-256: 57b3927f94b849e3649913b78fea41a3f513d4baba649eaa2813ff1fcf26a7ac

The assessed source. The assessment rests on one published report and its landing page, both pinned by hash and both independently archived. Every quotation was read from the pinned copy at page-image resolution.

RefArtefactSHA-256Third-party copy
S-RPT-1Connected & protected: building Australia's submarine cable resilience. ANU National Security College, PDF, 88 pagescabd3f82cdd2ca1de8cf38bc25e0053804beda77bc557a70d2ba4c24718e25f8archived copy
S-RPT-2ANU National Security College landing page for the report, HTML as served78d5c9299be42422aca847682b17a16f61795241b98702801c4fb0ab22722603archived copy

Both archived captures were fetched and hash identically to the copies pinned above, so a reader can check the quotations without relying on this site or on the publisher’s server.

The build. The PDF is produced deterministically from tracked source by build.sh, with SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH pinned to the assessment date. Repeat builds on one machine and one toolchain are byte-identical; independent third-party reproducibility is not established and is not claimed. Verify by SHA-256, not by rebuild.

Versions

Version history

One version. The assessment date and the publication date are both recorded, and they differ.

VersionAssessedPublishedSHA-256Status
v1.014 August 202615 August 202603272d53f23ac766ccb0b3796db52e2e891ff9c955c724bc43824b44922e3dbccurrent

The cover carries 14 August 2026, the date the assessment was made. Publication followed on 15 August 2026. An assessment is a reading of a source at a moment, and the document’s retrieval times and viewed dates already fix that moment; the cover is not moved to the upload date, because that would put two dates on one act of reading.

Corrections

Corrections

None. This is the first published version and nothing in it has been corrected since publication.

Corrections made before publication are not listed here. They are recorded in the case’s own scope file, which is where the drafting record belongs. This section exists to hold what changes after a reader could have relied on it, and it will say so plainly if that ever happens.

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Assessment PDF

AOS-SCN-2026-001-v1.0.pdf · 131,417 bytes · 12 pages

SHA-256: 03272d53f23ac766ccb0b3796db52e2e891ff9c955c724bc43824b44922e3dbc

OpenTimestamps receipt