Use when auditing preservation or compliance regimes whose controls destroy the thing they were built to protect.

The Library's preservation protocol — take the data, delete the originals, keep a single copy, file every bit in order — is designed to protect truth from corruption. Instead it destroys provenance and reduces all knowledge to an undifferentiated stream of bits. A purity rule built to save evidence ends by making retrieval meaningless: an archive perfect in its logical construction, containing nothing usable.