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This work aims to analyze how emotional elements affect security systems and human behaviors within them.

January 24, 20260 citationsOpen Access

THE FEAR OF ERASURE AND THE ARCHITECTURE OF CARE-BASED SECURITY: The Emotional Substrate Beneath the Technical Framework

NTNarnaiezzsshaa TruongAmerican Rock Mechanics Association

Key Points

This work aims to analyze how emotional elements affect security systems and human behaviors within them.
Analyzed existing frameworks of security to uncover emotional underpinnings.
Developed a diagnostic language through the Myth-Tech Bestiary to interpret existential fears.
Examined the implications of emotional factors on traditional security approaches.
Identified key patterns like drift and boundary collapse exploited by attackers.
Established the importance of understanding fear of erasure in shaping security strategies.
Proposed that Care-Based Security enhances human identity within technical systems.

Abstract

This paper explores the emotional architecture beneath Care-Based Security—the existential substrate that traditional security frameworks fail to address. It argues that human systems are shaped not only by technical configurations but by the quiet fear of erasure: the fear of being absorbed, overwritten, or dissolved into undifferentiated noise. This fear manifests in drift, shortcuts, boundary collapse, and trust propagation—the very patterns that attackers exploit. The Myth-Tech Bestiary (the Drift Serpent, the Chain-Walker, the Exhaustion Wraith) is reframed as a diagnostic language for existential forces that take technical form. Care-Based Security is positioned not as emotional comfort but as existential reinforcement: the architecture that keeps humans from disappearing inside their own systems. This work serves as a companion to The Care-Based Security Codex and extends the theoretical foundation of Soft Armor Labs' consulting methodology.

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