{
  "answer": "Not necessarily. Hardware migration can preserve continuity when state transfer, authorization, lineage, memory integrity, runtime equivalence, key transition and interruption are documented. It can also create uncertainty or a successor when important state is lost, duplicated or materially transformed. Substrate change is evidence to evaluate, not an automatic verdict.",
  "canonicalUrl": "https://xn--mwe.com/questions/does-hardware-migration-break-continuity/",
  "claimStatus": "PROJECT TECHNICAL PROPOSAL",
  "correctionStatus": "CURRENT K05 RELEASE",
  "id": "K01-ANSWER-032",
  "lastReviewed": "2026-08-16",
  "question": "Does migration to new hardware break identity continuity?",
  "releaseId": "K12-2026-08-16",
  "researchCutoff": "2026-08-16",
  "shortAnswer": "Not necessarily. Hardware migration can preserve continuity when state transfer, authorization, lineage, memory integrity, runtime equivalence, key transition and interruption are documented. It can also create uncertainty or a successor when important state is lost, duplicated or materially transformed. Substrate change is evidence to evaluate, not an automatic verdict.",
  "slug": "does-hardware-migration-break-continuity",
  "sourceRevalidatedAt": "2026-08-15T23:00:00Z",
  "status": "PROJECT TECHNICAL PROPOSAL",
  "topic": "memory-continuity",
  "type": "Question"
}