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How should a ranking system treat a document that has n...

Treating missing credentials as ‘unknown’ or neutral (0.5) is dangerous because it provides an easy path for attackers to bypass security by simply omitting a manifest. To maintain system integrity, documents without credentials must be explicitly penalized and ranked below verified content to ensure the user is aware of the lack of provenance.

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