host/taint: carry both pids as owner keys; gate the wiring and the contract

Round 10 review, findings 1, 4 and 6.

Finding 1 (P1, phase 6) — key 4 was `node.or_else(client)`, so a node's
client-controlled application.process.id REPLACED its Client's protected
pipewire.sec.pid. One process using two Clients could therefore split its
identity: the tainted reader reports a bogus node pid, the output leg omits
the node pid and falls back to the Client's real one, the legs are bounded
by different values, and they neither bridge nor trip the unbounded sweep —
the output stays eligible while re-emitting the call. Now a union of both
values, deduplicated, with exception 1 applied to each independently so the
pipewire-pulse pid still cannot fuse unrelated Clients.

Mutation-verified: reverting to or_else fails ONLY the new split-Client test
(so the union changes nothing else), dropping exception 1 fails 32 rows, and
using the Client pid alone fails 16.

Not reachable today — evaluate() is reached only by the dry-run audit, which
creates no links. It becomes live when phase 6 consumes these decisions.

Finding 4 — R10-4's test called peerspeak_owned() directly, so reverting
node_observation_from_props to truthy() left it green; the only case it
shared with production, exact "1", passes under both. A new test builds a
real pw_properties dict and drives the production wiring, and the mutation
now fails exactly that test while the helper test still passes.

Finding 6 — the cross-repo fixture still documented carrier 1 as "any value
other than false/0", which R10-4 made exact-"1". A producer following it
could emit "true" and silently lose the carrier. Fixture updated in both
repos (byte-identical, verified), along with the stale prose in taint/tests
and snapshot.rs, and the contract is now also exercised through the
production adapter rather than only against the constants.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# PipeWire registry `global` event and readable only via a node bind, so the
# primary taint root must not rest on one observation mechanism alone.
# Carrier 1 — a node property. The consumer treats any value other than
# "false"/"0" as truthy, which is the fail-closed direction; the producer
# always emits exactly this value.
# Carrier 1 — a node property, matched EXACTLY: `prop_value` below is the
# ONLY spelling the consumer reads as owned. A producer emitting "true", "yes"
# or "" is NOT owned on this carrier, and only carrier 2 would still catch it.
#
# ⚠️ This wording is load-bearing and it CHANGED in round 10. The consumer
# used to accept any value other than "false"/"0", on the theory that leniency
# over-excludes and is therefore safe. It is not: leniency buys false-positive
# exclusion, and it let any process suppress a rival application's audio from
# the share with a property it did not even have to spell right. Fail-closed
# on this feature is about ANCESTRY — an unresolvable graph is not eligible —
# not about parsing.
prop_key=peerspeak.owned
prop_value=1