The Strait of Hormuz has long been the world's most legible pressure point — the place where energy dependence and military posturing translate directly into price signals. Iran's threat to shut it [2] and its rapid reversal once the strait was declared open [1] followed the familiar grammar of coercive bargaining. What is new is the computational infrastructure operating underneath that grammar. in the region means that every maritime threat now carries a surveillance and counter-surveillance dimension that accelerates both the credibility of threats and…