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A one-byte frame tamper taught me how content-addressed sidecars, an append-only event log, and disk-truth verification keep a pipeline recoverable.
TL;DR: When a corrupted frame triggered media-quarantine instead of a crash, the kernel proved it rebuilds state from events and verifies files from disk, never trusting recorded hashes. Content-addressed caption sidecars give free deduplication, while the append-only log enables clean recovery through full rebuilds. But hash chains prove tamper-evidence, not authenticity—integrity is an architecture, not a checksum ritual.