# Black Swan Net program FAQ

Updated 8 August 2026 · Public release v0.4.0

## What is Black Swan Net?

Black Swan Net is a secure communications program developing dedicated full-Linux endpoint appliances for direct, mutually authenticated sessions between explicitly authorized devices. It is not an app added to a general-purpose phone.

## Does Black Swan Net store messages for an offline recipient?

No. The selected operational baseline is synchronized and direct only. If the recipient is unavailable, an encrypted local draft or pending object may remain on the sender under policy, but nothing is transmitted or deposited with Black Swan infrastructure.

## Does the session use a Black Swan server, queue, directory, relay or push service?

No operational Black Swan message server, queue, cloud message store, identity service, directory, relay, push service or vendor key-custody system participates in the selected session baseline. Parties coordinate availability through operating procedure or another approved out-of-band mechanism.

## Is Black Swan Net completely serverless, anonymous or free of metadata?

No. Public web hosting, customer systems, software distribution, time, provisioning, evidence or administrative processes may use infrastructure outside the direct content path. Access networks, endpoints and observers may still learn or infer IP, timing, volume, RF, location, session or relationship information.

## Is the production endpoint Android or GrapheneOS?

No. The selected production direction is a minimal, immutable and independently controlled full-Linux userspace on the Pixel-derived boot chain. Android and GrapheneOS remain historical exploration and hardware-discovery references.

## What are Direct, Sovereign, Gateway and Assurance?

- **Black Swan Direct:** stock Pixel 10a reference track and baseline under active development.
- **Black Swan Sovereign:** modified RED/GREEN dual-WLAN high-assurance hardware direction; an engineering proposal pending implementation and test.
- **Black Swan Gateway:** trusted-workstation use of the Sovereign boundary without ordinary Internet access; a product direction pending implementation and test.
- **Black Swan Assurance:** controlled releases, evidence, vulnerability response, incident support, replacement, secure logistics and depot lifecycle.

## What happens if a device is lost, captured, opened or tampered with?

The endpoint is removed from operations, its identity is permanently revoked, applicable fleet state advances, and a replacement can be provisioned. Returned hardware enters controlled quarantine, depot analysis, complete reconstitution or destruction. The old identity is never restored.

## Does Black Swan Net publish prices?

Not in this release. Available device and annual-Assurance figures remain planning hypotheses, not approved public offers. Pricing depends on exact hardware, policy, evidence, secure logistics, support, replacement and deployment scope.

## Is Black Swan Net certified, government-approved or authorized for classified information?

No. Black Swan Net is not currently represented as certified, government-approved, authorized for CUI or classified information, or equivalent to a SCIF. Component validation, product evaluation, system assessment and customer authorization are different decisions.

## Has the name received formal trademark clearance?

No clearance conclusion is stated. A reported prior Ohio emergency-network use is only a diligence lead. Formal USPTO, common-law, domain, category and confusion analysis by trademark counsel remains open.

## How can an organization engage?

Choose a [private demonstration](https://blackswannet.com/contact/?engagement=private-demonstration), [enterprise pilot](https://blackswannet.com/contact/?engagement=enterprise-pilot), [government briefing](https://blackswannet.com/contact/?engagement=government-briefing), or [integration-partner discussion](https://blackswannet.com/contact/?engagement=integration-partner).

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