diff --git a/app/main.py b/app/main.py
index f9e21e3..a2fbe5c 100644
--- a/app/main.py
+++ b/app/main.py
@@ -36,6 +36,40 @@ from slowapi.errors import RateLimitExceeded
 logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
 logger = logging.getLogger("member-portal")
 
+# SECURITY (ops/security#2): OC's generic webhooks cannot send headers, so the shared
+# secret must travel in the URL path — which means uvicorn writes it into the access
+# log on every delivery, and the log is read by more things than the secret is. The
+# token cannot be kept out of the URL; it can be kept out of the retention. Filters
+# sit on the access logger and on the root handler so both uvicorn's line and any
+# string the app itself logs get scrubbed.
+_WEBHOOK_TOKEN_RE = re.compile(r"(/webhook/opencollective/)[^\s\"'?&]+")
+
+
+def _redact_webhook_path(value):
+    if isinstance(value, str) and "/webhook/opencollective/" in value:
+        return _WEBHOOK_TOKEN_RE.sub(r"\1<redacted>", value)
+    return value
+
+
+class _RedactWebhookPath(logging.Filter):
+    """Replace the webhook token in any logged request path with <redacted>."""
+
+    def filter(self, record: logging.LogRecord) -> bool:
+        try:
+            record.msg = _redact_webhook_path(record.msg)
+            if isinstance(record.args, tuple):
+                record.args = tuple(_redact_webhook_path(a) for a in record.args)
+            elif isinstance(record.args, dict):
+                record.args = {k: _redact_webhook_path(v) for k, v in record.args.items()}
+        except Exception:
+            pass  # a logging filter must never break logging
+        return True
+
+
+logging.getLogger("uvicorn.access").addFilter(_RedactWebhookPath())
+for _handler in logging.getLogger().handlers:
+    _handler.addFilter(_RedactWebhookPath())
+
 app = FastAPI(title="Inference Cooperative Member Portal")
 
 # --- Rate limiting (control plane only, not the member inference path) ---
@@ -811,6 +845,51 @@ async def fetch_all_member_nodes() -> list[dict]:
     raise RuntimeError("OC member pagination exceeded 20 pages")
 
 
+_MEMBER_SET_MIN_RATIO = 0.5
+
+
+def _member_set_verdict(fetched: int, local_active: int) -> bool:
+    """Is this member list plausible enough to act on? (member-portal#2)
+
+    Pure decision so it can be tested without a database.
+
+    Guards the case a raise-only fail-safe cannot see: a fetch that SUCCEEDS while
+    returning nothing, or far less than usual. A narrowed token scope, an expired
+    credential with partial access, or a renamed Membership tier on Open Collective
+    all produce that, and the sweep's response to it is to deactivate the membership
+    rather than to fail. An empty collective is legitimate only when we have no
+    active members ourselves.
+    """
+    if local_active <= 0:
+        return True
+    # Strictly above: a halving of the membership is implausible enough, and refusing
+    # costs a loud error (no action taken) where allowing it costs the membership.
+    return fetched > 0 and fetched > local_active * _MEMBER_SET_MIN_RATIO
+
+
+def _member_set_guard(fetched: int, label: str) -> None:
+    """Raise when the fetched member list is implausible, so callers fail safe."""
+    try:
+        conn = get_db()
+        local_active = conn.execute(
+            "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM members WHERE active = 1"
+        ).fetchone()[0]
+        conn.close()
+    except Exception as e:  # fresh install / unreadable DB: nothing to compare against
+        logger.warning("member-set guard: cannot read the local member count (%s); skipping", e)
+        return
+    if _member_set_verdict(fetched, local_active):
+        logger.info("member-set guard OK (%s): fetched %d, %d active locally",
+                    label, fetched, local_active)
+        return
+    raise RuntimeError(
+        f"implausible member list from Open Collective ({label}): fetched {fetched} while "
+        f"{local_active} members are active locally. Refusing to reconcile — the sweep "
+        "fail-safe keeps members active instead. Check the OC token's scopes and expiry, "
+        "and that the Membership tier still exists (fetch_members filters on its name)."
+    )
+
+
 async def fetch_members() -> list[dict]:
     """Return the full active-member list: email, name, slug, role, tier.
 
@@ -848,6 +927,9 @@ async def fetch_members() -> list[dict]:
                 "role": role,
                 "tier": tier,
             })
+    # Guard before ANY caller acts on this: the sweep deactivates members missing
+    # from the list, so an implausible list must fail rather than propagate.
+    _member_set_guard(len(result), "oc members query")
     return result