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7.3 million profiles from Chess.com, 4.6 million emails, and hidden advertising segments have been made publicly available — without a single hack. The data was collected for nine consecutive days by inputting foreign email databases into the friend search function. We analyze how scraping is distinguished from hacking by UUID and the rhythm of data extraction, and where the line is drawn between collecting public data and enumerating personal identifiers.

📅 September 14, 2026
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HTTP 200 no longer means "data collected." Nepenthes, Iocaine, and Cloudflare AI Labyrinth feed crawlers with endless generated text, while poisoned pages cause AI agents to recommend non-existent brands in 27–73.8% of cases. We analyze three mechanics of silent data corruption and seven checks that catch garbage before it is recorded in the database.

📅 September 13, 2026
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