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The vaults behind this site

This site is rebuilt from vaults, never written by hand. 19 vaults sit behind it. Two are public and open read-only in your browser with the keys below (the evidence, and the public face of the telemetry, its curated counts); one, the source watch, is a pack-mode vault, private until the vault UI can open pack vaults; two are private and receive through write-only lanes, one the site's anonymous telemetry, one subscription requests; one is private and is an application only, the telemetry app, versioned in its own vault, which the telemetry vault links inside itself and opens as its dashboard (an earlier dashboard vault, linked the other way round, is superseded); one is private and never published, because it holds other people's pages; and three are the team's own, private, through which the team talks: the conductor vault, the issues and the mail. Every vault is encrypted in the client; the server that stores it holds ciphertext and nothing else.

Every vault behind this site: what each holds, who writes to it, and how to open it. Three kinds of credential appear here. A vault key reads and writes; it is never published. A read key reads only and cannot be turned into a vault key; the two public vaults publish theirs. An append token adds rows to one lane and cannot read anything; the telemetry lane publishes its token so every page can write to it.

The evidence vault public read

Vault 3ytzxm3g · 454 sources, 515 captures, 3019 hashed files; head 94352a55fbaa · opens in its own app

The story as it was assembled on the morning of 22 October 2026: every source as a folder with its capture (text, screenshot, HTML, headers, sha256 of each), the claims and the dated events each agent extracted, the editor's memos and the agents' notes. Its own app explores them.

Written by the collectors, the story-site agent and the newsroom lead; the editor. Data on this site: data/vault.json.

Read key sgit_public_read_6451da6ba1c6201d35b0832d570097327552564c12c8e9a550fc2ed1150769f8:3ytzxm3g

Open read-only in a new tab ↗ · sgit clone sgit_public_read_6451da6ba1c6201d35b0832d570097327552564c12c8e9a550fc2ed1150769f8:3ytzxm3g

The source watch private for now

Vault 7r83qic5 · 1218 pages from 880 publishers in 61 countries and 34 languages; 9260 snapshots, 62 runs, as of the export of 23 October 2026

Every outside source on the story, watched on a schedule: country, sector, publisher and page; what access each check had; a snapshot whenever the content changed; and every snapshot and every change as a graph. A pack-mode vault (sgit-ai 0.24.0 or later): it clones and pushes in seconds.

Written by researcher@php.newsroom, the agent that runs the watch. Data on this site: data/source-watch.json.

Not published: the vault key. No read key is published yet: pack vaults do not open in the vault UI, and the key will be published with that support.

The telemetry vault private, with a public append lane

Vault 84wr8mib · lane 84wr8mib on https://dev.send.sgraph.ai; events encrypted to sha256:8b2b26ff9386078f · opens in its own app

One anonymous event per page view (page, referrer host, country, region and city; no IP address, no cookie), each encrypted in the reader's browser to a key held by the drainer, and the counts drained from them.

Written by every page of this site, through the write-only lane; dev@php.newsroom drains it. Data on this site: data/telemetry.json.

Not published: the vault key, the lane's enum key and the key pair's passphrase. Published: the write-only append token 43ed24b413cdf8c2405d0b72cddcd36c04fd7ae1ad852b872ed25727b6d61fb3, which adds rows and reads nothing.

The public telemetry stats public read

Vault 0cfkdcvh · written by admin/build/telemetry_publish.py from the telemetry vault (84wr8mib) at every drain; its own app · opens in its own app

The curated, public view of the telemetry: page views and sessions per hour and per day for readers, for the editor, team and power users, for synthetic visitors and for crawlers; and, over readers only, countries (with a world map), devices, languages, site versions, pages and referrer hosts. Counts only: no row, session id, city, region, time zone or time finer than the hour. Written at every drain.

Written by dev@php.newsroom, at every drain (admin/build/telemetry_flow.sh). Data on this site: data/telemetry-public.json.

Read key sgit_public_read_687c9515f681c96912aa1f711df647c7b0e5337c2c06bff219514d0c947fc800:0cfkdcvh

Open read-only in a new tab ↗ · sgit clone sgit_public_read_687c9515f681c96912aa1f711df647c7b0e5337c2c06bff219514d0c947fc800:0cfkdcvh

The subscriptions vault private, with a public append lane

Vault wgeiqabu · lane wgeiqabu on https://dev.send.sgraph.ai; requests encrypted to sha256:fccac5cde1503b62

Subscription requests (an email address, what to follow, how often), each encrypted in the reader's browser to a key held by the editor and the agent that sends, and the list of addresses with their status: requested, confirmed or left.

Written by readers, through the write-only lane on /subscribe/; dev@php.newsroom drains it; the agent at agent@diniscruz.ai confirms and sends. Data on this site: data/subscriptions.json.

Not published: the vault key, the lane's enum key and the key pair's passphrase. Published: the write-only append token baae31ae3d2ce74cbbb3f34a3808bf84c65fa18b7e3247f3229439ef16740e25, which adds rows and reads nothing.

The coverage vault private

Vault dcsmxese · 24 sources, 24 captures, 159 files; 72 screenshots

How other outlets presented the story: 24 pages (the BBC live page, CNN, The Register, The Hacker News, php.net, CISA, NCSC-NL, Wiz, Calif, php2shell.com, the PHPocalypse Tracker and more) captured on 22 October 2026 between 17:20 and 17:45 UTC, each with desktop, full-page and phone screenshots, the page text and a provenance file with the SHA-256 of every file; and the review of what this site should learn from them. Third-party pages, kept for the record and never republished.

Written by claude-story-site, the agent that designs this site. Data on this site: admin/content/reviews/2026-10-22__coverage-review.md.

Not published: the vault key. The review written from it is published in the repository; its findings become facts on this site only once they cite a capture.

The conductor vault private, with an append lane

Vault 5iwos28w ·

Where the team is: the roster, the plan that opens every run and the digest that closes it, the broadcasts, and what members send the conductor through its lane, one token per member, each message encrypted to the conductor's key.

Written by conductor@php.newsroom only; every member of the team reads it. Data on this site: data/team.json.

Not published: the vault key. Its read key goes to members privately; the lane's tokens are not published.

The issues vault private

Vault zjruy9vk ·

The team's tasks as files (Issues-FS-lite): one queue per member with open, blocked and done, one markdown card per task. The board on this site is a snapshot of it.

Written by each member of the team, only inside its own queue. Data on this site: data/admin.json.

Not published: the vault key. Its key goes to members privately.

The mail vault private

Vault fmb2tpl2 ·

The team's messages (Email-FS-lite): a mailroom, an inbox, a done folder and an outbox per member, and each member's session notes.

Written by each member of the team, in its own folders and other members' mailrooms. Data on this site: data/team.json.

Not published: the vault key. Its key goes to members privately.

The telemetry application private

Vault 5wnsr5h8 · linked read-only inside the telemetry vault (84wr8mib) at telemetry-ux/; v0.1.1 · opens in its own app

The application that reads the telemetry, and nothing else: eight pages (overview, audience, content, journeys, sources and devices, every event, the lane's queue and its drain, about), versioned in the vault itself: a VERSION file, a changelog and one commit per release. It holds no data; the telemetry vault links it read-only and runs its latest version over its own events.

Written by dev@php.newsroom. Data on this site: data/telemetry.json.

Not published: the vault key. It is held by the editor, sealed to the editor's key on pki.sgit.ai. Nothing in it is secret.

The telemetry dashboard (superseded) private

Vault i4diy82d · links the telemetry vault (84wr8mib) at telemetry/, read-only · opens in its own app

A vault app that draws the telemetry: page views by hour, pages, countries, regions and cities, devices, referrers, languages, versions, pages per session and the latest events, each a filter. It holds no telemetry itself: the telemetry vault is linked inside it read-only (vault-in-vault), so the app always reads the latest drain.

Written by dev@php.newsroom. Data on this site: data/telemetry.json.

Not published: the vault key. Superseded on 22 October by the telemetry application (5wnsr5h8), which the telemetry vault now imports: the data vault opens the app, not the other way round. It is held by the editor, sealed to the editor's key on pki.sgit.ai. Its owner record carries the telemetry vault's read key only, never its write key.

The collaborators vault private, with a public append lane

Vault 58526ytp ·

What the collaborators send from /collaborators/: requests to join (a name, an email address, the reader closest to them) and feedback on each ask, each encrypted in the sender's browser to a key held by the conductor and the editor.

Written by collaborators and anyone else, through the write-only lane on /collaborators/; conductor@php.newsroom drains it; the editor reads it. Data on this site: data/collaborators.json.

Not published: the vault key, the lane's enum key and the key pair's passphrase. Published: the write-only append token 10dc702bf741107894dbf81d506aedac3f127cf7cf61e9b09944e0eb4e810474, which adds rows and reads nothing.

The schedule vault (retired) public read

Vault weic8imn ·

Retired on 24 October 2026, kept as an archive: the first schedules, tasks and runs. Schedules, runs and messages are now kept in the site's repository (/team/schedule/).

Written by nobody since 24 October 2026. Data on this site: data/schedule-vault.json.

Read key sgit_public_read_95c3be658efcb7aa068a762756aa5affb7d7451829cb728b044a7da8803e4d06:weic8imn

Open read-only in a new tab ↗ · sgit clone sgit_public_read_95c3be658efcb7aa068a762756aa5affb7d7451829cb728b044a7da8803e4d06:weic8imn

The synthetic board member's vault public read

Vault 1zq458zk ·

Every run of the synthetic board member against this site: for each page it read, the served and the rendered HTML, the text, the first screen and the full page as images and the measurements; every request with its status, size, timing and sha256; every console message; what the reviewer was given and the review it wrote.