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We Eliminated Local Execution on User Devices – By Architecture

1•MOHDLZE•1h ago
We Didn’t Secure Local Execution. We Eliminated It.

Most systems still assume this premise is unavoidable: User devices must execute code.

Everything else follows from that assumption: sandboxes, secure enclaves, SDKs, hardening, policies.

We rejected the premise itself.

Execution is not a feature. Execution is the attack surface.

So we removed local execution from user devices — architecturally.

No runtime. No SDK. No application logic. No execution state.

The device becomes a User Gateway only: • captures raw input (touch, text, voice, camera) • renders non-executable interface data • produces cryptographic proof that zero local execution occurred

All execution happens 100% inside the cloud.

If execution does not traverse a sovereign execution path, it is treated as non-existent — not denied, not blocked, not sandboxed. It simply does not exist.

This is not: • Remote Desktop • Secure Execution • Trusted Enclaves • Policy Enforcement

All of those still assume local execution must exist.

We removed that assumption.

What this enables (as a consequence, not a goal): • A Cloud Store with no app downloads • A Cloud Wallet with no cards or keys on the device • Provable execution sovereignty for banks, governments, and regulated systems

Covered by a filed U.S. patent application.

Open question for discussion: If execution is the real attack surface, why do we still allow it to exist on user devices at all?

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MOHDLZE•1h ago
We eliminated local execution on user devices — not by restriction, but by architectural removal.

Most security models try to control local execution: sandboxes, secure enclaves, SDKs, policies.

We removed the execution surface itself.

No runtime. No SDK. No application logic on the device.

The device becomes a User Gateway only: raw input in, non-executable interface out, plus cryptographic proof that Zero Local Execution on Device actually holds.

All execution happens 100% in the cloud. If execution leaves the sovereign execution path, it is considered non-existent.

This is not Remote Desktop. Not VDI. Not secure execution. Those still assume local execution exists.

Covered by a filed U.S. patent application.

Open question for engineers here: If execution is the real attack surface, why are we still allowing it to exist on user devices at all?

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