Security
Security should reduce uncertainty, not add theatre.
Meridian keeps identity, billing, and private delivery attached to explicit account records. The objective is operational clarity, not performative security language.
Billing
Stripe checkout
Access
Authenticated accounts
Delivery
Telegram routing
Fallback
Conservative failure handling
Control surface
The core security question is whether account state remains legible when something breaks.
Authenticated account access remains separate from public marketing pages.
Stripe handles payment processing rather than Meridian storing card data directly.
Only the minimum account and delivery data needed to operate the service is retained.
If systems degrade, the safer state is to slow down and verify rather than guess.
Failure boundary
If payment, entitlement, or Telegram routing falls out of sync, Meridian should pause and require verification rather than quietly create ambiguous access. That is the standard that matters more than visual security theatre.