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Wiener-Gate

A multi-brand online pet-purchase fraud network, documented as a criminal supply chain rather than a single suspect.

operations active Version 1.0 · August 2026 · point-in-time snapshot
The claim this page makes

Nothing in this corpus asks to be believed on authority

Every collected artifact is hashed with SHA-256. Every hash is published. A machine re-checks all of them on every change and again every week. The archive is held somewhere that cannot be deleted, by anyone, including the people who put it there, until 2027-08-25.

Three manifests, three scopes

ManifestCoversGenerated
MANIFEST.csvThe 140-file collected corpus: filename, folder, sha256, bytesat capture
NETWORK_CAPTURE_MANIFEST.txtEvery file from the four live sites2026-08-24T15:27:48Z
EXPORT_MANIFEST.txtEvery evidence and document file in the repo at handoff2026-08-25T04:54:40Z
Continuous enforcement

An Evidence Integrity job runs on every push touching evidence, plus Mondays 06:00 UTC. It fails closed on altered bytes or unexplained absence. The allowlist of expected-absent files is hardcoded, not derived from the ignore rules — an integrity control must not be bypassable by the change it is meant to police.

Off-site custody

Backblaze B2, encrypted with age, compliance-mode Object Lock until 2027-08-25. The write credential cannot delete: a delete attempt against the stored archive returns 401 unauthorized. Weekly full re-download and byte-for-byte re-hash, Mondays 07:10 UTC.

Please try to break this
One artifact is expected to be absent: a network capture carrying 209 live cookie headers, treated as secret-bearing and stored encrypted off-site with its hash recorded. Everything else is checkable — and the correct response to finding an error is to say so loudly. Found one? That is the point.