What stops them
Six habits. Not fourteen defences for fourteen adversaries, which is the practical payoff of sorting the register this way.
Coverage
Which habit stops which adversary. Most are covered more than once, which is why missing one is survivable and missing the first is not.
| Habit | Covers |
|---|---|
| Verify on arrival | Clone operator, recycled address, outage opportunist, long con account, directory buyer, gateway lookalikes |
| Pin a fingerprint once | Everything above, plus the key rotation forger. Nothing else works without this. |
| Read the middle | Recycled address, clone operator. And the ends, which catches the clipboard swapper. |
| Unique credentials | Credential stuffer completely, account buyer partly |
| No parked balance | Exiting vendor, and every loss that has nothing to do with an attacker |
| Refuse to hurry | Outage opportunist, fake support, key rotation forger, off escrow persuader |
The one gapNothing on this page stops the clipboard swapper, because that adversary is already on your machine and verification assumes a machine you can trust. That is a real gap and it is better stated than papered over.
The six
Verify on arrivalUnder a minute, and it settles what nothing else can.Do every timePin a fingerprint onceCareful work for an hour, once. Everything else depends on it.Do onceRead the middleForgeries match the ends. Substitutions replace everything. Check accordingly.Five secondsUnique credentialsUniqueness is the property that matters. Strength is not the issue.Do onceNo parked balanceThe most common loss has no attacker attached to it at all.FreeRefuse to hurryUrgency is the one thing every adversary here needs from you.Do always