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Provenance: Notifying Websites
Working log behind Notifying websites. Every query with its denominator, the report script and its unedited output, the folding rules with their residue, the quotes that were spot-checked, the external sources that were verified and the ones that were rejected, and what could not be established. Corpus-wide caveats are on Corpus and are not restated here.
Not prose. Read it if you are checking a number.
The run
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Date | 2026-08-13 |
| Page status | new page. practices:notifying_websites was a red link promised from start since the site's outline was written; nothing existed at that id. |
| Corpus at the time | data/extract/run1/extractions.jsonl, 5,859 papers, 7 venues (CCS, IMC, NDSS, PETS, USENIX Security, TheWebConf, IEEE S&P), 2010–2026. 5,869 paper.cols.txt files. |
| Scripts written | scripts/report_notifying_websites.mjs, scripts/notify_fold.mjs, notes/find_contacts.py |
| Models | Orchestration, all corpus queries, the fold classification, all quote spot-checks and the page text: Opus 5. Four Sonnet sub-agents: three paper-extraction passes (Li 2016 ×2; Maass 2021 + PETS 2023 ×2; security.txt + 2022–2026 papers) and one external-currency pass. Four Sonnet/Fable reviewers, logged below. |
| Sub-agent outputs kept | notes/notify_paper_li2016.md, notes/notify_papers_campaigns.md |
| Corrections caught in review | listed under Reviewer findings |
Scope decision
The item as specified pointed at ethics.notifiedAffectedParties and ethics.harmMitigation and asked for “how to reach an operator at scale, response rates reported in the literature, and the disclosure-timeline conventions”. Two judgement calls:
- Scope excludes one-off coordinated disclosure to a named vendor. That is a queue with an SLA and nothing on this page would help. The page says so in its second paragraph. The consequence is that a large share of the 1,636
notifiedAffectedParties == yespapers are out of scope for the how-to part while remaining in scope for the how often part; the page keeps those two questions in separate sections rather than pooling them. - Scope includes network-scanning campaigns, not only web ones. The page is titled “Notifying Websites” but 10 of the 22 hand-classified campaigns notified network operators rather than site owners, and the methodological literature (control groups, channel comparison, decay curves, the one RCT) is disproportionately on that side. Excluding it would have produced a page with three campaigns on it. The page states which population each figure comes from. A reasonable person would have narrowed this to web only and produced a thinner, more on-title page.
- Not broadening a neighbour. Ethics exists but is 2.6 kB of bullet-point notes covering crawling harm, robots.txt and ethics approval. Notification is one line in its outline. Broadening it would have buried a 30 kB page inside a stub on a different topic. The two pages cross-link instead.
Queries: how often the field notifies
All figures from scripts/report_notifying_websites.mjs. Denominators, in the order the page uses them:
| Population | Definition | N |
|---|---|---|
| empirical | isEmpirical == true | 5,118 |
| empirical ∧ has an ethics record | isEmpirical == true ∧ ethics != null | 4,472 |
| crawled ∧ ethics | (crawlConfig != null ∨ studyTypes ∋ automated-web-crawl) ∧ ethics != null | 992 |
| web ∧ ethics | empirical ∧ platforms ∋ web ∧ ethics != null | 1,362 |
| network scan ∧ ethics | studyTypes ∋ network-scan-or-probe ∧ ethics != null | 858 |
| legal ∧ ethics | empirical ∧ legal.length > 0 ∧ ethics != null | 376 |
| human subjects ∧ ethics | empirical ∧ participants.length > 0 ∧ ethics != null | 1,283 |
The denominator differs from data/extract/OVERVIEW.md and that is deliberate. OVERVIEW reports ethics.notifiedAffectedParties stated by 2,354 of 5,118 empirical papers (46.0%). This page uses 4,472 — empirical papers that carry an ethics record at all — giving 2,354/4,472 = 52.6% stating something. The 646-paper difference is papers where the extractor emitted no ethics object because the paper said nothing about ethics anywhere. Counting those as “did not notify” conflates said nothing about ethics with said it did not notify, which is exactly the sentinel error the corpus rules forbid. Both denominators are defensible; the page names the one it uses in the sentence before the table. Anyone diffing against OVERVIEW should expect this 6.6-point gap and not treat it as an error.
The old task hint (notifiedAffectedParties stated by 40.9%, harmMitigation by 57.4%, of 3,814 empirical papers) was computed on the 4,322-paper corpus and is superseded in both numerator and denominator. No figure was carried over.
Report script and its unedited output
Run as node scripts/report_notifying_websites.mjs. Flags: –wiki for DokuWiki tables, –list for the hand-classified campaigns, –quotes for ethics evidence quotes, –residue for every unmapped fold entry and every unreviewed candidate.
out/notifying_websites-output.txt in the workdir is two concatenated runs: the plain run (lines 1–143) followed by the –list run (lines 144–448), which repeats the plain output before adding the campaign list. A diff against a single fresh invocation therefore shows ~305 spurious extra lines. This misled one reviewer; head -143 and tail -n +144 each match a fresh run byte-for-byte. The script itself is deterministic — verified.
Sections of the script, so a figure on the content page can be traced to the block that produced it:
- A —
ethics.notifiedAffectedPartiesby value and by population - B — four-year buckets: notification, silence, disclosure detail, harm mitigation, regulator contact
- C —
ethics.regulatorContact;ethics.harmMitigationfolded into families with residue - D —
ethics.disclosureDetailfolded into channel and outcome families with residue, plus every entry carrying a countable ratio - E — full-text candidate scan, hand classification, and the unreviewed residue
- F — (
–quotes) ethics evidence quotes for web papers withnotifiedAffectedParties == yes
corpus: 5859 extraction records, 7 venues, 2010–2026
populations: empirical 5118 | empirical with an ethics record 4472 (87.4%) | crawled 1120 (with ethics record 992) | network-scan 930 (with ethics record 858)
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A. HOW OFTEN THE FIELD SAYS IT NOTIFIED ANYONE
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-- ethics.notifiedAffectedParties, of 4472 empirical papers with an ethics record --
Value Papers Share
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yes 1636 36.6%
partial 524 11.7%
no 194 4.3%
not-applicable 1001 22.4%
not-stated 1117 25.0%
stated something (yes|partial|no): 2354 = 52.6%; notified (yes|partial): 2160 = 48.3%
-- the same field, per population --
Population (all ∧ has an ethics record) N yes partial no not-applicable not-stated
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empirical 4472 36.6% 11.7% 4.3% 22.4% 25.0%
empirical ∧ measured the web platform 1362 33.2% 11.7% 7.0% 19.5% 28.6%
ran an automated web crawl 992 29.8% 13.7% 9.4% 15.9% 31.1%
ran a network scan or probe 858 37.6% 23.4% 4.2% 10.7% 24.0%
assessed compliance with a law 376 42.0% 14.6% 9.8% 21.5% 12.0%
recruited human participants 1283 39.7% 7.6% 1.9% 35.3% 15.4%
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B. IS NOTIFICATION BECOMING A NORM? (four-year buckets)
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Indicator Denominator 2010–2013 2014–2017 2018–2021 2022–2024 2025–2026*
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Papers with an ethics record empirical 338/460 610/718 1089/1272 1482/1649 953/1019
Notified (yes|partial) empirical ∧ ethics 21.3% 37.7% 45.9% 52.8% 60.3%
Said nothing (not-stated) empirical ∧ ethics 61.5% 40.2% 26.5% 16.9% 13.1%
Notified (yes|partial), crawlers only crawled ∧ ethics 14.6% 34.7% 41.4% 50.6% 54.3%
Gave any disclosureDetail text empirical ∧ ethics 31.7% 48.4% 58.9% 70.8% 81.6%
Named a harm-mitigation step empirical ∧ ethics 46.4% 61.1% 65.0% 76.8% 85.0%
Contacted a regulator or CERT (yes) empirical ∧ ethics 0.3% 3.0% 4.7% 3.4% 2.8%
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C. REGULATOR / CERT CONTACT, AND HARM MITIGATION
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-- ethics.regulatorContact, of 4472 --
Value Papers Share
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yes 147 3.3%
no 1982 44.3%
not-stated 2343 52.4%
of the 376 that assessed a law: yes 27 (7.2%)
-- ethics.harmMitigation: 3186 of 4472 (71.2%) name at least one step --
Family (a paper can be in several) Papers Share of 3186
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anonymisation, aggregation, no PII collected 732 23.0%
NOTIFICATION — told the affected party 594 18.6%
rate limiting, bandwidth caps, low request volume 287 9.0%
consent, permission, or cooperation obtained 259 8.1%
withheld, redacted, or delayed publication 241 7.6%
isolated testbed, own accounts, own devices 178 5.6%
no exploitation, non-invasive probing, restricted scope 163 5.1%
access-controlled or encrypted storage 156 4.9%
NOTIFICATION — opt-out, exclusion list, or an explanatory page for the scanner 114 3.6%
debriefing, compensation, or support for participants 65 2.0%
ethics board or legal review 25 0.8%
unmapped residue: 1069 of 3186 (33.6%)
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D. WHAT ethics.disclosureDetail SAYS — CHANNELS AND OUTCOMES
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2870 of 4472 (64.2%) give free-text disclosure detail. The field is capped at 20 words, so it names a channel only when the channel was
the notable thing. These are rankings of an under-reported field, not adoption rates.
-- channel named in disclosureDetail, of 2870 papers that gave any --
Channel family Papers Share of 2870
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a named large platform or app store (Google, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon…) 335 11.7%
direct email to the operator or developer 113 3.9%
CERT / CSIRT / national coordinator 39 1.4%
hosting provider / ISP / upstream 38 1.3%
bug bounty / vulnerability reward programme 36 1.3%
WHOIS / registry contact 18 0.6%
data protection authority / regulator 17 0.6%
standards body / working group 13 0.5%
generic contact form or phone 10 0.3%
no channel named at all: 2303 of 2870 (80.2%) — the single largest group, and the finding
-- outcome named in disclosureDetail, of 2870 --
Outcome family Papers Share of 2870
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fixed / patched / removed 373 13.0%
acknowledged / confirmed 359 12.5%
CVE assigned or bounty paid 96 3.3%
no response / ignored / declined 25 0.9%
still pending / awaiting 18 0.6%
no outcome named: 2155 of 2870 (75.1%)
-- disclosureDetail entries carrying a number: 7 of 2870 (0.2%) --
IMC/2016/ad-blockers-global-prevalence-and-impact
Panel was 100% opt-in with thorough privacy disclosure pages.
USENIX/2021/lzr-identifying-unexpected-internet-services
No complaints or operator questions from the 1% scans; seven organizations complained during 100% scans.
CCS/2022/an-extensive-study-of-residential-proxies-in-china
Contacted 318 of 559 sensitive organizations; received 11 responses by submission.
CCS/2022/understanding-iot-security-from-a-market-scale-perspective
Reported confirmed case-study vulnerabilities to 12 of 18 vendors; reporting to six remained in progress.
CCS/2022/do-opt-outs-really-opt-me-out
Informed 10 of 11 inconsistent trackers by email; one corrected its opt-out implementation.
USENIX/2024/fv8-a-forced-execution-javascript-engine-for-detecting-evasive-techniques
Reported 110 malicious extensions to Google; 62.7% were removed.
IMC/2025/poster-how-do-you-know-my-name-investigating-the-role-of-domain-names-for-target
Cooperated with toplist maintainers and limited honey domains to 0.02% of top-10ⁿ domains.
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E. NOTIFICATION CAMPAIGNS IN THE FULL TEXT (hand-classified)
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Stage Papers
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paper.cols.txt files read 5869
candidates (notify ∧ outcome ∧ number in one sentence) 179
hand-classified as a campaign 22
hand-classified and rejected, with a reason 16
UNREVIEWED residue — matched, nobody read the paper 144
sanity: campaigns not caught by the regex (added from a wider first-pass scan): 0
rejected slugs not caught by the regex: 3 — how-website-owners-face-privacy-issues-thematic-analysis-of-responses-from-a-cov, from-whois-to-whowas-a-large-scale-measurement-study-of-domain-registration-privacy-under-the-gdpr, the-cve-wayback-machine-measuring-coordinated-disclosure-from-exploits-against-t
-- campaigns by decade-ish bucket, of 22 hand-classified --
Bucket Campaigns
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2010–2013 1
2014–2017 4
2018–2021 4
2022–2024 8
2025–2026* 5
What was notified about Campaigns
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network 10
web 10
mobile 2
Two of the four figures in ethics.disclosureDetail ratios above are quoted on the content page and were re-verified against the JSONL by exact substring match: an-extensive-study-of-residential-proxies-in-china (CCS 2022) and fv8-a-forced-execution-javascript-engine-for-detecting-evasive-techniques (USENIX Sec 2024), one match each.
Folding: rules and residue
Free-text fields agree run-to-run on roughly 20% of exact strings, so nothing here is aggregated by exact string. Three folds were written, in scripts/report_notifying_websites.mjs and scripts/notify_fold.mjs.
1. ''ethics.disclosureDetail'' → channel families
Nine regex families, not mutually exclusive (a paper that told a CERT and the vendor belongs in both; papers counted once per family). Published on the content page as a ranking, never as adoption rates.
- The residue is the headline: 2,303 of 2,870 (80.2%) match no channel family. That is not a fold failure, it is the field's content — a 20-word summary of “we disclosed responsibly” names no channel. Published on the content page as the finding.
- The largest matched family, “a named large platform or app store”, is a deliberately loose rule matching the strings
google play, app store, play store, apple, google, amazon, facebook, meta, microsoft, marketplace, mozilla, chrome, android. It over-matches: a paper that used Google Play as a population source and disclosed elsewhere lands here. The label on the content page says “a named large platform”, not “notified a platform”, for that reason. Do not read 11.7% as “11.7% notified a platform”. hosting provider / ISP / upstreamalso matches the bare tokenregistrar, which overlaps the WHOIS family. Both are under 1.5% and reported as a ranking, so the overlap is stated rather than resolved.
2. ''ethics.disclosureDetail'' → outcome families
Five families, non-exclusive. Residue 2,155 of 2,870 (75.1%), published above. Not used on the content page except as the 75.1% figure.
3. ''ethics.harmMitigation'' → families
Eleven families, non-exclusive. Residue 1,069 of 3,186 (33.6%). This fold is diagnostic only — no folded harm-mitigation figure appears on the content page; the page uses only the non-null count (71.2%) and its per-bucket trend, neither of which depends on the fold. The residue is therefore recorded here by shape rather than in full, and prints with node scripts/report_notifying_websites.mjs –residue.
Shape of the 1,069, read from the first ~60 entries and a shuffled sample of 45: almost entirely study-specific harm limitation with no generalisable family — “Used a wired testbed and 900-MHz transmitter to minimize GPS interference”, “Purchased unlimited daily plans so test traffic was not counted”, “Suppressed uploads from BitTorrent clients to avoid distributing illegal software”, “Captured only four bytes of application payload to minimise privacy impact”. A first attempt with mutually-exclusive first-match-wins rules and narrower regexes gave 46.5% residue and a nonsensical zero in one family; broadening the regexes and making families non-exclusive took it to 33.6%. It was not driven lower, because the remainder is genuinely one-off. Anyone wanting a publishable harm-mitigation taxonomy should treat that residue as the work, not as noise.
4. The campaign classification (''scripts/notify_fold.mjs'')
The one fold that is a hand list rather than a regex family list, and the reason is in the file: the corpus signal for “the authors ran a campaign” is a sentence, not a name. ethics.notifiedAffectedParties == yes does not distinguish a bulk campaign to thousands of strangers from one email to Google's security team, and those are different methods with different rates.
Candidate rule: over normaliseText(paper.cols.txt) (de-hyphenate line breaks, collapse whitespace), a sentence under 400 characters matching all three of
NOTIFY_RE=/notif|disclos|reported (?:it |them |the )?to|informed|contacted|reach(?:ed)? out/iOUTCOME_RE=/respon|repl(?:y|ied|ies)|acknowledg|fix|patch|remediat|resolv|ignor|no answer|bounce|took? (?:it )?down|removed/iNUM_RE= a percentage, a comma-grouped integer, or anN of Mratio
Result over 5,869 files: 179 candidates → 22 campaigns, 16 rejected with a reason, 144 unreviewed.
Inclusion threshold, applied by hand: the authors notified parties they did not already know, at a scale where the contact had to be looked up, and reported a delivery, response or remediation outcome. Rough scale floor ≥100 parties, which is why PETS 2022's 40-organisation SAR re-test is in the rejected list and quoted only in prose.
An earlier, wider first-pass scan (a looser regex, 197 candidates) was used to seed the hand list; the script reports that 0 campaigns and 3 rejections fall outside the committed narrow regex, so the committed rule reproduces the campaign set. The three rejections it misses are how-website-owners-face-privacy-issues…, from-whois-to-whowas… and the-cve-wayback-machine… — kept in REJECTED anyway because they are papers a future run will want the reason for.
Rejections, with the deciding reason (this is the part that stops the next run re-adding them):
| Slug | Why not a campaign |
|---|---|
behind-the-curtain-how-shared-hosting-providers-respond-to-vulnerability-notific | IEEE S&P 2026 — interview study of 24 hosting providers, no campaign. Cited on the page for its 2026 currency claim instead. |
how-website-owners-face-privacy-issues-thematic-analysis-of-responses-from-a-cov | PETS 2023 — secondary thematic analysis of the Maass et al. reply corpus; explicitly declines to report rates. |
who-you-gonna-call-an-empirical-evaluation-of-website-security-txt-deployment | IMC 2021 — passive crawl of security.txt adoption. Never sent a notification, never tested whether a listed contact works. |
from-whois-to-whowas-a-large-scale-measurement-study-of-domain-registration-privacy-under-the-gdpr | NDSS 2021 — measures WHOIS redaction, not notification. Load-bearing for the page's currency claim about the WHOIS channel. |
poster-mapping-the-landscape-of-large-scale-vulnerability-notifications | CCS 2016 poster — two-page summary of the USENIX Sec 2016 campaign already counted. Including it would double-count one campaign. |
an-empirical-study-of-web-vulnerability-discovery-ecosystems | CCS 2015 — measures a bug-bounty platform's own report flow, not a campaign the authors ran. |
quantifying-the-pressure-of-legal-risks-on-third-party-vulnerability-research | CCS 2017 — surveys companies' disclosure policies and legal posture. Cited for legal risk. |
where-are-the-red-lines-towards-ethical-server-side-scans-in-security-and-privac | IEEE S&P 2024 — surveys server operators about scanning ethics. Cited for operator expectations. |
a-large-scale-empirical-study-of-security-patches | CCS 2017 — patch timing over public CVE data; no notification sent. |
the-cve-wayback-machine-measuring-coordinated-disclosure-from-exploits-against-t | IMC 2023 — coordinated-disclosure timing from public data; no notification sent. |
rethinking-ssl-development-in-an-appified-world | CCS 2013 — reports 73.1% of informed developers did not fix, but gives no channel or delivery detail. Too thin for the table. Judgement call: a looser threshold would have included it. |
network-hygiene-incentives-and-regulation-deployment-of-source-address-validatio | CCS 2019 — same research programme as the IEEE S&P 2022 RCT already counted; its notification numbers are that campaign's precursor. |
the-cookie-hunter-automated-black-box-auditing-for-web-authentication-and-author | CCS 2020 — reports reaching ~43% of affected domains but no response or remediation outcome. |
out-of-sight-out-of-mind-detecting-orphaned-web-pages-at-internet-scale | CCS 2021 — “possibly in response to our notifications” is explicitly speculative; no measured outcome. |
the-state-of-the-samesite-studying-the-usage-effectiveness-and-adequacy-of-sames | IEEE S&P 2022 — 40 websites; coordinated disclosure to named parties, not a scale campaign. |
revisiting-identification-issues-in-gdpr-right-of-access-policies-a-technical-an | PETS 2022 — 40 organisations re-tested after disclosure. Under the ≥100-party floor; quoted in prose only. |
The six campaigns not on the content page's rates table, because they report a volume sent but no response or remediation figure: freely-given-consent… (CCS 2022, 1,127 developers), extended-hell-o… (USENIX Sec 2023), dancer-in-the-dark… (USENIX Sec 2024, 19% response — this one is quoted in prose), beyond-exploit-scanning… (USENIX Sec 2025, 4,983 emails), hey-your-secrets-leaked… (IEEE S&P 2025, 3,906 emails), and beyond-the-horizon… (IEEE S&P 2025, 15,837 ASes).
So the rates table has 17 rows: 16 of the 22 hand-classified campaigns, plus [1Stock, Ben; Pellegrino, Giancarlo; Li, Frank; Backes, Michael; Rossow, Christian (2018): "Didn't You Hear Me? - Towards More Successful Web Vulnerability Notifications", in: Proceedings of the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium. (DOI)], which is not in CAMPAIGNS because its full text is not in the corpus (see below) and the fold only classifies papers the scan could read. catch-22… is on the table for its channel, not for a rate.
The 144 unreviewed candidates, in full
Matched the candidate rule; nobody read the paper. Any of these may be a campaign the content page should have listed. The rule has known false positives — a candidate sentence can be a paper describing someone else's campaign in related work, or a survey response rate, or a sentence about “disclosure” in an unrelated sense (self-disclosure in social media, information disclosure as a vulnerability class), all of which are visible in the list below.
IMC 2010 internet-background-radiation-revisited IMC 2010 selecting-representative-ip-addresses-for-internet-topology-studies CCS 2012 before-we-knew-it-an-empirical-study-of-zero-day-attacks-in-the-real-world NDSS 2013 when-firmware-modifications-attack-a-case-study-of-embedded-exploitation USENIX 2013 an-empirical-study-of-vulnerability-rewards-programs WWW 2013 two-years-of-short-urls-internet-measurement-security-threats-and-countermeasure CCS 2013 rethinking-ssl-development-in-an-appified-world (also in REJECTED) USENIX 2014 a-look-at-targeted-attacks-through-the-lense-of-an-ngo USENIX 2014 brahmastra-driving-apps-to-test-the-security-of-third-party-components CCS 2015 an-empirical-study-of-web-vulnerability-discovery-ecosystems (also in REJECTED) IEEE-SP 2015 the-attack-of-the-clones-a-study-of-the-impact-of-shared-code-on-vulnerability-p NDSS 2015 checking-more-and-alerting-less-detecting-privacy-leakages-via-enhanced-data-flo PETS 2015 portrait-of-a-privacy-invasion IEEE-SP 2016 seeking-nonsense-looking-for-trouble-efficient-promotional-infection-detection-t IEEE-SP 2016 talos-neutralizing-vulnerabilities-with-security-workarounds-for-rapid-response IMC 2016 weak-keys-remain-widespread-in-network-devices PETS 2016 towards-mining-latent-client-identifiers-from-network-traffic CCS 2017 a-large-scale-empirical-study-of-security-patches (also in REJECTED) IMC 2017 if-you-are-not-paying-for-it-you-are-the-product-how-much-do-advertisers-pay-to NDSS 2017 are-we-there-yet-on-rpki-s-deployment-and-security PETS 2017 wiretapping-end-to-end-encrypted-voip-calls-real-world-attacks-on-zrtp USENIX 2018 from-patching-delays-to-infection-symptoms-using-risk-profiles-for-an-early-disc USENIX 2018 wpse-fortifying-web-protocols-via-browser-side-security-monitoring CCS 2019 a-usability-evaluation-of-lets-encrypt-and-certbot-usable-security-done-right CCS 2019 network-hygiene-incentives-and-regulation-deployment-of-source-address-validatio (also in REJECTED) NDSS 2019 automating-patching-of-vulnerable-open-source-software-versions-in-application-binaries NDSS 2019 digital-healthcare-associated-infection-a-case-study-on-the-security-of-a-major-multi-campus-hospital-system NDSS 2019 we-value-your-privacy-now-take-some-cookies-measuring-the-gdprs-impact-on-web-privacy PETS 2019 accessileaks-investigating-privacy-leaks-exposed-by-the-android-accessibility-se USENIX 2019 50-ways-to-leak-your-data-an-exploration-of-apps-circumvention-of-the-android-pe USENIX 2019 evaluating-the-contextual-integrity-of-privacy-regulation-parents-iot-toy-privac USENIX 2019 the-betrayal-at-cloud-city-an-empirical-analysis-of-cloud-based-mobile-backends WWW 2019 studying-preferences-and-concerns-about-information-disclosure-in-email-notifica CCS 2020 dangerous-skills-got-certified-measuring-the-trustworthiness-of-skill-certificat CCS 2020 the-cookie-hunter-automated-black-box-auditing-for-web-authentication-and-author (also in REJECTED) IEEE-SP 2020 a-security-analysis-of-the-facebook-ad-library IEEE-SP 2020 the-many-kinds-of-creepware-used-for-interpersonal-attacks IMC 2020 behind-closed-doors-a-network-tale-of-spoofing-intrusion-and-false-dns-security NDSS 2020 broken-metre-attacking-resource-metering-in-evm NDSS 2020 complex-security-policy-a-longitudinal-analysis-of-deployed-content-security-policies PETS 2020 the-price-is-not-right-comparing-privacy-in-free-and-paid-apps USENIX 2020 actions-speak-louder-than-words-entity-sensitive-privacy-policy-and-data-flow-an USENIX 2020 cached-and-confused-web-cache-deception-in-the-wild USENIX 2020 plug-n-pwned-comprehensive-vulnerability-analysis-of-obd-ii-dongles-as-a-new-ove WWW 2020 an-empirical-study-of-the-use-of-integrity-verification-mechanisms-for-web-subre CCS 2021 i-need-a-better-description-an-investigation-into-user-expectations-for-differen CCS 2021 out-of-sight-out-of-mind-detecting-orphaned-web-pages-at-internet-scale (also in REJECTED) IEEE-SP 2021 sok-quantifying-cyber-risk IMC 2021 who-you-gonna-call-an-empirical-evaluation-of-website-security-txt-deployment (also in REJECTED) NDSS 2021 all-the-numbers-are-us-large-scale-abuse-of-contact-discovery-in-mobile-messengers NDSS 2021 shadow-attacks-hiding-and-replacing-content-in-signed-pdfs PETS 2021 defining-privacy-how-users-interpret-technical-terms-in-privacy-policies PETS 2021 digital-inequality-through-the-lens-of-self-disclosure USENIX 2021 a-large-scale-interview-study-on-information-security-in-and-attacks-against-sma USENIX 2021 injection-attacks-reloaded-tunnelling-malicious-payloads-over-dns USENIX 2021 now-im-a-bit-angry-individuals-awareness-perception-and-responses-to-data-breach CCS 2022 clues-in-tweets-twitter-guided-discovery-and-analysis-of-sms-spam IEEE-SP 2022 the-state-of-the-samesite-studying-the-usage-effectiveness-and-adequacy-of-sames (also in REJECTED) IEEE-SP 2022 timing-based-browsing-privacy-vulnerabilities-via-site-isolation IMC 2022 characterizing-permanently-dead-links-on-wikipedia IMC 2022 mind-your-manrs-measuring-the-manrs-ecosystem NDSS 2022 auto-draft-219 PETS 2022 developers-say-the-darnedest-things-privacy-compliance-processes-followed-by-dev PETS 2022 exploring-the-privacy-concerns-of-bystanders-in-smart-homes-from-the-perspective PETS 2022 revisiting-identification-issues-in-gdpr-right-of-access-policies-a-technical-an (also in REJECTED) PETS 2022 we-may-share-the-number-of-diaper-changes-a-privacy-and-security-analysis-of-mob USENIX 2022 movery-a-precise-approach-for-modified-vulnerable-code-clone-discovery-from-modi WWW 2022 measuring-alexa-skill-privacy-practices-across-three-years WWW 2022 understanding-the-practice-of-security-patch-management-across-multiple-branches CCS 2023 dont-leak-your-keys-understanding-measuring-and-exploiting-the-appsecret-leaks-i CCS 2023 passive-ssh-key-compromise-via-lattices IEEE-SP 2023 no-one-drinks-from-the-firehose-how-organizations-filter-and-prioritize-vulnerab IEEE-SP 2023 no-privacy-in-the-electronics-repair-industry IEEE-SP 2023 three-birds-with-one-stone-efficient-partitioning-attacks-on-interdependent-cryp IEEE-SP 2023 utopia-automatic-generation-of-fuzz-driver-using-unit-tests IMC 2023 a-longitudinal-study-of-vulnerable-client-side-resources-and-web-developers-upda IMC 2023 rovista-measuring-and-analyzing-the-route-origin-validation-rov-in-rpki IMC 2023 the-cve-wayback-machine-measuring-coordinated-disclosure-from-exploits-against-t (also in REJECTED) IMC 2023 wolf-in-sheeps-clothing-evaluating-security-risks-of-the-undelegated-record-on-d PETS 2023 investigating-how-users-imagine-their-personal-privacy-assistant PETS 2023 lessons-in-vcr-repair-compliance-of-android-app-developers-with-the-california-c PETS 2023 on-the-role-and-form-of-personal-information-disclosure-in-cyberbullying-inciden PETS 2023 privacy-rarely-considered-exploring-considerations-in-the-adoption-of-third-part PETS 2023 revoked-just-now-users-behaviors-toward-fitness-data-sharing-with-third-party-ap USENIX 2023 a-bugs-life-analyzing-the-lifecycle-and-mitigation-process-of-content-security-p USENIX 2023 all-of-them-claim-to-be-the-best-multi-perspective-study-of-vpn-users-and-vpn-pr USENIX 2023 arana-discovering-and-characterizing-password-guessing-attacks-in-practice USENIX 2023 are-you-spying-on-me-large-scale-analysis-on-iot-data-exposure-through-companion USENIX 2023 downgrading-dnssec-how-to-exploit-crypto-agility-for-hijacking-signed-zones USENIX 2023 internet-service-providers-and-individuals-attitudes-barriers-and-incentives-to USENIX 2023 my-privacy-for-their-security-employees-privacy-perspectives-and-expectations-wh USENIX 2023 panda-security-analysis-of-algorand-smart-contracts USENIX 2023 pushed-by-accident-a-mixed-methods-study-on-strategies-of-handling-secret-inform USENIX 2023 whip-improving-static-vulnerability-detection-in-web-application-by-forcing-tool CCS 2024 airgapagent-protecting-privacy-conscious-conversational-agents CCS 2024 are-we-getting-well-informed-an-in-depth-study-of-runtime-privacy-notice-practic CCS 2024 defying-the-odds-solanas-unexpected-resilience-in-spite-of-the-security-challeng IEEE-SP 2024 breach-extraction-attacks-exposing-and-addressing-the-leakage-in-second-generati IEEE-SP 2024 from-virtual-touch-to-tesla-command-unlocking-unauthenticated-control-chains-fro IEEE-SP 2024 shedding-light-on-cvss-scoring-inconsistencies-a-user-centric-study-on-evaluatin IEEE-SP 2024 sok-sgx-fail-how-stuff-gets-exposed IEEE-SP 2024 tabbed-out-subverting-the-android-custom-tab-security-model IEEE-SP 2024 where-are-the-red-lines-towards-ethical-server-side-scans-in-security-and-privac (also in REJECTED) NDSS 2024 dont-interrupt-me-a-large-scale-study-of-on-device-permission-prompt-quieting-in-chrome NDSS 2024 understanding-the-implementation-and-security-implications-of-protective-dns-services PETS 2024 exploring-the-privacy-experiences-of-closeted-users-of-online-dating-services-in PETS 2024 security-and-privacy-with-second-hand-storage-devices-a-user-centric-perspective PETS 2024 the-medium-is-the-message-how-secure-messaging-apps-leak-sensitive-data-to-push USENIX 2024 diffie-hellman-picture-show-key-exchange-stories-from-commercial-vowifi-deployme USENIX 2024 digital-discrimination-of-users-in-sanctioned-states-the-case-of-the-cuba-embarg USENIX 2024 globalconfusion-trustzone-trusted-application-0-days-by-design USENIX 2024 malla-demystifying-real-world-large-language-model-integrated-malicious-services USENIX 2024 rethinking-the-security-threats-of-stale-dns-glue-records USENIX 2024 spf-beyond-the-standard-management-and-operational-challenges-in-practice-and-pr USENIX 2024 towards-more-practical-threat-models-in-artificial-intelligence-security USENIX 2024 unpacking-privacy-labels-a-measurement-and-developer-perspective-on-googles-data WWW 2024 unfiltered-measuring-cloud-based-email-filtering-bypasses CCS 2025 a-decade-long-landscape-of-advanced-persistent-threats-longitudinal-analysis-and CCS 2025 is-this-a-scam-the-nature-and-quality-of-reddit-discussion-about-scams IEEE-SP 2025 beyond-the-horizon-uncovering-hosts-and-services-behind-misconfigured-firewalls (in CAMPAIGNS) IEEE-SP 2025 gptracker-a-large-scale-measurement-of-misused-gpts IEEE-SP 2025 sniffing-location-privacy-of-video-conference-users-using-free-audio-channels NDSS 2025 hitchhiking-vaccine-enhancing-botnet-remediation-with-remote-code-deployment-reuse NDSS 2025 was-this-you-investigating-the-design-considerations-for-suspicious-login-notifications NDSS 2025 who-is-trying-to-access-my-account-exploring-user-perceptions-and-reactions-to-risk-based-authentication-notifications PETS 2025 ai-is-from-the-devil-behaviors-and-concerns-toward-personal-data-sharing-with-ll PETS 2025 how-unique-is-whose-web-browser-the-role-of-demographics-in-browser-fingerprinti PETS 2025 privacy-perceptions-and-behaviors-towards-targeted-advertising-on-social-media-a PETS 2025 the-effect-of-platform-policies-on-app-privacy-compliance-a-study-of-child-direc USENIX 2025 a-mixed-methods-study-of-open-source-software-maintainers-on-vulnerability-manag USENIX 2025 an-industry-interview-study-of-software-signing-for-supply-chain-security USENIX 2025 collisionrepair-first-aid-and-automated-patching-for-storage-collision-vulnerabi USENIX 2025 exploring-user-security-and-privacy-attitudes-and-concerns-toward-the-use-of-gen USENIX 2025 gpuhammer-rowhammer-attacks-on-gpu-memories-are-practical USENIX 2025 malicious-llm-based-conversational-ai-makes-users-reveal-personal-information
The list above is the honest coverage boundary of this page. The highest-value follow-up is reading the ~15 of these that look like real campaigns — NDSS 2017 are-we-there-yet-on-rpki-s-deployment-and-security (a “19% success rate” for ROAlert notifications), IMC 2016 weak-keys-remain-widespread-in-network-devices, IMC 2020 behind-closed-doors…, NDSS 2020 complex-security-policy…, WWW 2024 unfiltered… (“over 80% of the domains contacted were unresponsive”), IEEE-SP 2025 gptracker… — and adding them to CAMPAIGNS.
Quotes spot-checked
''ethics.evidence.quote'' against the source text
Seven papers with notifiedAffectedParties == yes ∧ platforms ∋ web, picked deterministically one per year across 2013–2026, checked after de-hyphenating and whitespace-collapsing both the quote and paper.cols.txt:
| Paper | Result |
|---|---|
IMC/2013/analysis-of-the-https-certificate-ecosystem | EXACT |
PETS/2016/the-curious-case-of-the-pdf-converter-that-likes-mozart… | NOT FOUND verbatim; located as the fragment “an IRB review was not performed beforehand, this” — a column splice, the content is in the paper |
IEEE-SP/2019/phishfarm-a-scalable-framework… | EXACT |
PETS/2021/unveiling-web-fingerprinting-in-the-wild… | EXACT |
USENIX/2023/reversing-breaking-and-fixing-the-french-legislative-election-e-voting-protocol | PARTIAL (first 8 words present, tail spliced) |
IMC/2025/a-permissions-odyssey… | EXACT |
WWW/2026/sage-rai-design-patterns-for-transparent-rag-systems | NOT FOUND verbatim; located as “Participation did not affect grades, and volunteers gave” |
4 exact, 1 partial, 2 spliced-but-locatable, 0 unlocatable, 0 fabricated. Consistent with the corpus README's 57.9% exact / 37% via an 8-word run / 0.9% unlocatable. No ethics quote is quoted on the content page, so this check was for confidence in the enum, not to validate a published string.
Figures quoted on the content page, against the paper text
Every load-bearing quote on the content page was re-checked by the orchestrator against paper.cols.txt after the sub-agents reported it, because sub-agent line numbers are not by themselves evidence.
| Claim | Result |
|---|---|
| [2Maass, Max; Stöver, Alina; Pridöhl, Henning; Bretthauer, Sebastian; Herrmann, Dominik; Hollick, Matthias; Spiecker, Indra (2021): "Effective Notification Campaigns on the Web: A Matter of Trust, Framing, and Support", in: Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium. (Link)] “56.6 % of all notified operators remediating within two months, compared to 9.2 % of the control group” | EXACT. The sub-agent had reported a differently-spliced rendering of the same sentence from the abstract; the cleaner Section 7.1 wording is what the page now quotes, and it adds the two-month window the abstract omits |
| [2Maass, Max; Stöver, Alina; Pridöhl, Henning; Bretthauer, Sebastian; Herrmann, Dominik; Hollick, Matthias; Spiecker, Indra (2021): "Effective Notification Campaigns on the Web: A Matter of Trust, Framing, and Support", in: Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium. (Link)] “achieving remediation rates of 76.3 % compared to” | EXACT |
| [2Maass, Max; Stöver, Alina; Pridöhl, Henning; Bretthauer, Sebastian; Herrmann, Dominik; Hollick, Matthias; Spiecker, Indra (2021): "Effective Notification Campaigns on the Web: A Matter of Trust, Framing, and Support", in: Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium. (Link)] “No legal action was filed against the involved researchers or universities” | EXACT |
| [2Maass, Max; Stöver, Alina; Pridöhl, Henning; Bretthauer, Sebastian; Herrmann, Dominik; Hollick, Matthias; Spiecker, Indra (2021): "Effective Notification Campaigns on the Web: A Matter of Trust, Framing, and Support", in: Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium. (Link)] sender effect “59.7 % compared to the 54 % of UNI - CS (p < 0.05)” | EXACT |
| [2Maass, Max; Stöver, Alina; Pridöhl, Henning; Bretthauer, Sebastian; Herrmann, Dominik; Hollick, Matthias; Spiecker, Indra (2021): "Effective Notification Campaigns on the Web: A Matter of Trust, Framing, and Support", in: Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium. (Link)] “increasing the remediation rate by between 3.9 and 17.9 percentage points (mean: 11.1)” and “we spent around 5000 C on domestic postage in total” | EXACT. The C is the euro sign lost in extraction; the page writes € |
| [2Maass, Max; Stöver, Alina; Pridöhl, Henning; Bretthauer, Sebastian; Herrmann, Dominik; Hollick, Matthias; Spiecker, Indra (2021): "Effective Notification Campaigns on the Web: A Matter of Trust, Framing, and Support", in: Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium. (Link)] “Overall, 41.2 % of all notified owners remediated before the reminder, which was increased to 56.6 % by the reminder” | EXACT |
| [3Utz, Christine; Michels, Matthias; Degeling, Martin; Marnau, Ninja; Stock, Ben (2023): "Comparing Large-Scale Privacy and Security Notifications", in: Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies. (DOI)] “87.8 % of initial notifications for Parsed were successfully delivered, but only 33.8 % of emails to Generic addresses” | EXACT |
| [3Utz, Christine; Michels, Matthias; Degeling, Martin; Marnau, Ninja; Stock, Ben (2023): "Comparing Large-Scale Privacy and Security Notifications", in: Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies. (DOI)] “no significant impact of warnings about potential fines” | EXACT |
| [4El Yadmani, Soufian; Gadyatskaya, Olga; Zhauniarovich, Yury (2025): "The File That Contained the Keys Has Been Removed: An Empirical Analysis of Secret Leaks in Cloud Buckets and Responsible Disclosure Outcomes", in: Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. (DOI)] “9 out of 11 organizations contacted using emails from their privacy policy pages resolved the reported issues” | EXACT |
| [5Bennett, Nathaniel; Sowards, Rebekah; Deccio, Casey T. (2022): "SPFail: Discovering, Measuring, and Remediating Vulnerabilities in Email Sender Validation", in: Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference. (DOI)] “2,054 of these emails (31.6%) were returned as undelivered” | EXACT |
| [5Bennett, Nathaniel; Sowards, Rebekah; Deccio, Casey T. (2022): "SPFail: Discovering, Measuring, and Remediating Vulnerabilities in Email Sender Validation", in: Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference. (DOI)] 60-day CVE embargo | column-spliced but present: “Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) published 60 days after the … last private notifications” |
| [6Poteat, Tara; Li, Frank (2021): "Who You Gonna Call? An Empirical Evaluation of Website security.txt Deployment", in: Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference. (DOI)] “3–4% for the top 10K sites, and only a percent for the top 100K” | column-spliced but present; also verified 11–16% (top 100) and 8–10% (top 1K) in the same passage. These are inverted Kaplan-Meier deployment estimates over the 15-month window on a static site set, not a single-day snapshot — the page uses the paper's own phrase “deployment rate” |
| [7Stivala, Giada; Mrowczynski, Rafael; Hellenthal, Maria; Pellegrino, Giancarlo (2026): "Behind the Curtain: How Shared Hosting Providers Respond to Vulnerability Notifications", in: Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. (DOI)] “still average between 20 to 30%” and “no better channel than WHOIS” | EXACT, and read in context by the orchestrator: it is a related-work claim about the state of the field, not a result of that paper |
| [7Stivala, Giada; Mrowczynski, Rafael; Hellenthal, Maria; Pellegrino, Giancarlo (2026): "Behind the Curtain: How Shared Hosting Providers Respond to Vulnerability Notifications", in: Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. (DOI)] “it's basically out of scope for us to take care of that […]. Then you've got a shell there. Have fun.” | EXACT |
[7Stivala, Giada; Mrowczynski, Rafael; Hellenthal, Maria; Pellegrino, Giancarlo (2026): "Behind the Curtain: How Shared Hosting Providers Respond to Vulnerability Notifications", in: Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. (DOI)] web agencies use Impressum/credits/security.txt, “None relied on WHOIS for communication.” | EXACT |
| [8Li, Frank; Durumeric, Zakir; Czyz, Jakub; Karami, Mohammad; Bailey, Michael; McCoy, Damon; Savage, Stefan; Paxson, Vern (2016): "You've Got Vulnerability: Exploring Effective Vulnerability Notifications", in: Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium. (Link)] “our best notification regimen resulted in at most 18% of the population remediating” | EXACT |
| [8Li, Frank; Durumeric, Zakir; Czyz, Jakub; Karami, Mohammad; Bailey, Michael; McCoy, Damon; Savage, Stefan; Paxson, Vern (2016): "You've Got Vulnerability: Exploring Effective Vulnerability Notifications", in: Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium. (Link)] “96% of human-sent responses were positive or neutral” | EXACT |
| [9Lone, Qasim; Frik, Alisa; Luckie, Matthew; Korczyński, Maciej; van Eeten, Michel; Gañán, Carlos (2022): "Deployment of Source Address Validation by Network Operators: A Randomized Control Trial", in: Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. (DOI)] “none of the notification treatments significantly improved SAV deployment compared to the control group” | EXACT |
| [10Lu, Chaoyi; Liu, Baojun; Zhang, Yiming; Li, Zhou; Zhang, Fenglu; Duan, Haixin; Liu, Ying; Chen, Joann Qiongna; Liang, Jinjin; Zhang, Zaifeng; Hao, Shuang; Yang, Min (2021): "From WHOIS to WHOWAS: A Large-Scale Measurement Study of Domain Registration Privacy under the GDPR", in: Proceedings of the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium. (Link)] “over 60% large WHOIS data providers also redact non-EEA records” | EXACT |
| [10Lu, Chaoyi; Liu, Baojun; Zhang, Yiming; Li, Zhou; Zhang, Fenglu; Duan, Haixin; Liu, Ying; Chen, Joann Qiongna; Liang, Jinjin; Zhang, Zaifeng; Hao, Shuang; Yang, Min (2021): "From WHOIS to WHOWAS: A Large-Scale Measurement Study of Domain Registration Privacy under the GDPR", in: Proceedings of the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium. (Link)] “69% surveyed papers need to use redacted [WHOIS information]” | EXACT |
| [11Canali, Davide; Balzarotti, Davide; Francillon, Aurélien (2013): "The Role of Web Hosting Providers in Detecting Compromised Websites", in: Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference. (DOI)] “50% of both the global and regional web hosting providers never replied to any of the real abuse notifications we sent” | EXACT |
| [12Stock, Ben; Pellegrino, Giancarlo; Rossow, Christian; Johns, Martin; Backes, Michael (2016): "Hey, You Have a Problem: On the Feasibility of Large-Scale Web Vulnerability Notification", in: Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium. (Link)] 5.8% received / 74.5% still exploitable / Table 1 fix rates / Abusix / RFC 2142 aliases / legal threat on day two / 5 opt-outs covering 187 domains | read directly by the orchestrator from paper.cols.txt; no sub-agent involved |
| [9Lone, Qasim; Frik, Alisa; Luckie, Matthew; Korczyński, Maciej; van Eeten, Michel; Gañán, Carlos (2022): "Deployment of Source Address Validation by Network Operators: A Randomized Control Trial", in: Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. (DOI)] PeeringDB-before-WHOIS contact cascade | read directly by the orchestrator |
Two errors in the first published version, caught by the orchestrator's own re-check after publication and fixed in revision 2:
- The [13Sasaki, Takayuki; Fujita, Akira; Gañán, Carlos Hernandez; van Eeten, Michel; Yoshioka, Katsunari; Matsumoto, Tsutomu (2022): "Exposed Infrastructures: Discovery, Attacks and Remediation of Insecure ICS Remote Management Devices", in: Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. (DOI)] row said “93 (58%) responded — 'higher than most previous notification experiments'”. Wrong on three counts. The channel is manual telephone calls, not email — the paper explicitly contrasts itself with prior studies that used IP-WHOIS abuse contacts and claims to be “the first study to directly contact the organization operating the device”. The
93 (58%)is a spliced Table VI cell, not a response rate. And “higher than most previous notification experiments” is about the paper's remediation rate, not its response rate. The corrected row uses the paper's own funnel: 160 operators notified about 317 devices, the person in charge reached for 212, “50% of the persons in charge … stated that they mitigated or will mitigate”, devices “reduced by 58% when we were able to contact the persons in charge” against 13% for un-notified devices, χ² p<0.0001. This came from a sub-agent report that the orchestrator did not re-verify before first publication — the one place on the page where the verification discipline recorded above was not actually followed. - The [14Cetin, Orcun; Gañán, Carlos; Altena, Lisette; Kasama, Takahiro; Inoue, Daisuke; Tamiya, Kazuki; Tie, Ying; Yoshioka, Katsunari; van Eeten, Michel (2019): "Cleaning Up the Internet of Evil Things: Real-World Evidence on ISP and Consumer Efforts to Remove Mirai", in: Proceedings of the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium. (Link)] control column said “74% natural remediation in the control”. The paper says “surprisingly high natural remediation rates of 58[–]74% for this control group and for two reference networks” — a range across three groups, not a single control figure. Also added: “Email-only notifications have no observable impact compared to a control group”, which is the more important half of that paper for this page.
Discovering the first of these prompted a new subsection on the content page: phone calls and hand-read imprints are the channels with the highest measured rates in this literature, and the page's earlier flat statement that telephone “does not scale” was true only at [12Stock, Ben; Pellegrino, Giancarlo; Rossow, Christian; Johns, Martin; Backes, Michael (2016): "Hey, You Have a Problem: On the Feasibility of Large-Scale Web Vulnerability Notification", in: Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium. (Link)]'s N of 44,790. That claim is now qualified rather than repeated.
One internal inconsistency, not resolved: [12Stock, Ben; Pellegrino, Giancarlo; Rossow, Christian; Johns, Martin; Backes, Michael (2016): "Hey, You Have a Problem: On the Feasibility of Large-Scale Web Vulnerability Notification", in: Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium. (Link)] states a 2.4% control fix rate for client-side XSS in prose and 2.2% (4/185) in Table 1. The page quotes the table.
One inconsistency reported by a sub-agent and excluded: [15Stöver, Alina; Gerber, Nina; Pridöhl, Henning; Maass, Max; Bretthauer, Sebastian; Spiecker gen. Döhmann, Indra; Hollick, Matthias; Herrmann, Dominik (2023): "How Website Owners Face Privacy Issues: Thematic Analysis of Responses from a Covert Notification Study Reveals Diverse Circumstances and Challenges", in: Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies. (DOI)] Figure 1 says 1,495 owner responses while the body text says 1,043 (1,043 + 452 bounces/auto-replies = 1,495). Neither number is on the content page.
Papers read from outside the corpus
[1Stock, Ben; Pellegrino, Giancarlo; Li, Frank; Backes, Michael; Rossow, Christian (2018): "Didn't You Hear Me? - Towards More Successful Web Vulnerability Notifications", in: Proceedings of the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium. (DOI)], NDSS 2018, “Didn't You Hear Me? – Towards More Successful Web Vulnerability Notifications”. data/fulltext/2018/NDSS/ does not exist — NDSS 2016 and NDSS 2018 full text was not retrieved at all, while both years are present in data/corpus2/.meta. This is the canonical follow-up to the two 2016 campaigns, so it was fetched from the publisher (ndss-symposium.org PDF from the index's pdfUrl) and extracted with pdfminer.six (pdftotext is not installed in this workdir). Figures taken from it, with their locations in that extraction: population >24,000 domains in seven arms of ~4,000; fix rates 24% (Git) / 17% (WordPress) notified vs 13% / 14% control; six email variants with Fisher's exact + Holm–Bonferroni (m=6, α=0.05), all Git arms significant, only the Mailbot arm significant for WordPress, and “no group performed significantly better than all others”; bounce-all rates 1,085/8,160 (13.3%) Git and 1,906/12,442 (15.3%) WordPress; 74.42% / 33.33% fix rate among those who viewed the report; 24.7% among Git operators who opened the mail but never viewed the report; first reminder worth ~7 pp at two weeks and ~11 pp at four weeks, second reminder worth nothing. This is the one page figure not reproducible from the corpus mount.
External sources: verified, and rejected
A Sonnet sub-agent ran the currency pass; every load-bearing item was then re-fetched by the orchestrator, because the sub-agent hit HTTP 403 on several primary sources and fell back to search-engine caches. What follows separates the two.
Re-fetched by the orchestrator, 2026-08-13
| Claim on the page | Source | How verified |
|---|---|---|
| WHOIS sunset for gTLDs on 28 January 2025; RDAP is “the definitive source”; RDRS is the route to non-public data and names “cybersecurity professionals” | ICANN announcement, 27 Jan 2025 | curl with a browser User-Agent, HTML stripped; the quoted sentence read directly. The sub-agent got 403 on this page and reported it from a search cache — this is the single most load-bearing external claim on the page and would not have been publishable on that basis |
| RFC 9116 is Informational, April 2022, not obsoleted | rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9116.txt | fetched the RFC text; header reads “Category: Informational … April 2022” |
| NIS2 Article 12(1), quoted in full including tasks (a)–© | EUR-Lex CELEX:32022L2555 | fetched the consolidated HTML and read Article 12 verbatim, including the anonymous-reporting sentence |
| HackerOne Disclosure Assistance works “on a best-effort basis” for organisations with no policy | docs.hackerone.com | fetched; page dated 11 June 2024. Confirms the page's claim that [12Stock, Ben; Pellegrino, Giancarlo; Rossow, Christian; Johns, Martin; Backes, Michael (2016): "Hey, You Have a Problem: On the Feasibility of Large-Scale Web Vulnerability Notification", in: Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium. (Link)]'s reason for discarding reward programmes no longer holds for HackerOne — and that it is gated on having exhausted other options, so it is not a bulk channel |
| The IANA RDAP bootstrap registry is live and current | data.iana.org/rdap/dns.json | fetched; “publication”: “2026-07-23T02:00:03Z”. Used by find_contacts.py |
RDAP for .com returns a real record | https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/google.com | fetched, HTTP 200 |
| RIPEstat abuse-contact-finder resolves across RIRs | https://stat.ripe.net/data/abuse-contact-finder/data.json?resource=… | fetched for a RIPE address and an ARIN address; returned abuse@ethz.ch and network-abuse@google.com |
| Cyber Resilience Act dates (11 September 2026 for Article 14 reporting, 11 December 2027 for general application) | EUR-Lex OJ L 2024/2847 | both dates confirmed present in the Regulation text. Then cut from the page: the CRA imposes duties on manufacturers, not on researchers running a notification campaign, so it was off-scope rather than wrong |
Reported by the sub-agent from a direct fetch, used without re-fetching
- CERT/CC: 45-day default embargo — certcc.github.io, quoted verbatim, HTTP 200 on the sub-agent's fetch.
- Google Project Zero: 90+30 days, 14-day grace, 7 days for actively-exploited bugs, plus the Reporting Transparency trial from 29 July 2025 — projectzero.google. Also caught that
googleprojectzero.blogspot.comnow 301-redirects toprojectzero.google, so the blogspot URL is stale; the page says so. - Shadowserver: still free, 201 national CSIRTs, 175 countries — shadowserver.org.
- RFC 2142 still current, unrevised — rfc-editor.org / datatracker.
- RIPE validates
abuse-mailboxat least annually; ARIN validates Abuse POCs annually — docs.db.ripe.net, arin.net NRPM. - Abusix Abuse Contact DB still free and not rate-limited — docs.abusix.com. Relevant because [12Stock, Ben; Pellegrino, Giancarlo; Rossow, Christian; Johns, Martin; Backes, Michael (2016): "Hey, You Have a Problem: On the Feasibility of Large-Scale Web Vulnerability Notification", in: Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium. (Link)] used it in 2016.
Not verified, and flagged as such on the page
- USENIX Security 2026 ethics wording.
usenix.orgreturns 403 to automated fetches. The sub-agent read it from a search-engine cache. The page carries a footnote saying exactly this and telling the reader to check the live call. This is the only external claim on the page resting on a cache. - ISO/IEC 29147:2018 and ISO/IEC 30111:2019 review status.
iso.orgreturns 403 to both the sub-agent and the orchestrator. The page names the two standards and what they cover but makes no claim about edition, review status or a pending revision — that was cut rather than published on a search snippet. - CISA's Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure process.
cisa.gov403s. The sub-agent reported new joint CISA/NSA CVD guidance dated 15 July 2026 from secondary sources. Cut from the page entirely rather than published unverified. Worth adding once someone can fetch it. - CERT/CC Vultron. Reported as explicitly “not yet ready for production use”. Cut, because a non-production protocol is not a channel a PhD student can use this year.
- Bugcrowd / Intigriti / YesWeHack third-party report acceptance. No primary policy page found either way. The page therefore claims the 2016 “reward programmes only serve their customers” premise no longer holds for HackerOne specifically, and says nothing about the others.
Rejected sources
The sub-agent's first pass surfaced these; all were rejected as SEO, marketing or reseller content rather than primary, and none reached the page: whois.is blog, ipgeolocation.io, viewdns.info, myiphelp.com, decryptiondigest.com, secureframe.com, plaxidityx.com, standards.iteh.ai ISO reseller mirrors, dokumen.pub, secportal.io, craevidence.com, 0xlanks.me, uriports.com and iotdef.com security.txt adoption-statistics blogs, claimdepot.com, and the WHOIS-marketing explainers at abion.com, ionos.com, dynadot.com and safenames.net. Two — dreyfus.fr and cadeproject.org — were used only to corroborate the ICANN Registration Data Policy date while the ICANN page was 403ing, and became unnecessary once the orchestrator fetched ICANN directly.
The embedded code
notes/find_contacts.py on the page is the real file, and the code block under it is its real, unedited output from a run on 2026-08-13 against google.com ethz.ch cispa.de bbc.co.uk wikipedia.org.
Three things about that output are worth recording rather than tidying away:
- The same script on the same five domains gave 80% RIR-abuse coverage in one run and 100% in another, purely because
stat.ripe.nettimed out once forgoogle.com. The published block is the 100% run (it matches the current code); the 80% run is recorded here, and the content page states the discrepancy explicitly rather than presenting either number as a coverage measurement. Five domains and a transient — this is why the page says the sample is hand-picked and not representative. .chand.dehaving no RDAP service in the IANA bootstrap is a real finding, not a script bug — confirmed by readingdns.jsondirectly.- A reviewer found a real bug and it was fixed.
_rdap_base()fetched the IANA bootstrap registry with no error handling, so a single transient failure there raised an uncaughtURLErrorand killed the whole batch — contradicting the script's own promise that failures are printed rather than swallowed. It now raises aRuntimeErrornaming the URL and the reason, and refuses to continue, on the grounds that the alternative (a column of dashes) would silently understate RDAP coverage for every domain at once. Verified both paths: the happy path prints the table above, and pointingBOOTSTRAPat an unreachable host raises with full context. This is the second defect on this page that only surfaced because someone re-ran the code rather than reading it.
Design decisions in that script, all of them arguable:
- Domain WHOIS omitted on the currency grounds above. A 2016-vintage version of this script would have made WHOIS the primary source.
- RIPEstat rather than an Abusix DNS TXT lookup for abuse contacts, because this workdir has neither
dignordnspythonand code that cannot be executed cannot be published as tested. Abusix is the cheaper choice at scale and is what [12Stock, Ben; Pellegrino, Giancarlo; Rossow, Christian; Johns, Martin; Backes, Michael (2016): "Hey, You Have a Problem: On the Feasibility of Large-Scale Web Vulnerability Notification", in: Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium. (Link)] used; RIPEstat is the choice that runs with nothing but the Python standard library. The script's docstring does not say this; the page does not either. It should. mailto:scraping omitted, though it is the highest-yield source. Documented in the docstring with the reason.- The five test domains are hand-picked, not sampled, and the page says so and gives the contrasting corpus figure, because 80%
security.txtcoverage against [6Poteat, Tara; Li, Frank (2021): "Who You Gonna Call? An Empirical Evaluation of Website security.txt Deployment", in: Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference. (DOI)]'s 3–4% at the top 10K is the kind of number that gets quoted out of context.
Bibliography
21 new entries added to Bibliography before its closing </bibtex>. Generated with node scripts/bibgen.mjs, i.e. from data/corpus2/.meta publisher metadata rather than from recall. Checked before saving: 23 distinct citation keys used on the content page, 0 unresolved, 0 colliding with the 239 keys already in the file.
Two entries already existed and were reused rather than duplicated: maass2021_effective and hantke2024_redlines.
Author lists that the index does not carry — 100% of PETS and USENIX records have no authors and no DOI, they are scraped from venue pages — were fetched from the venue pages with curl and a browser User-Agent (WebFetch gets 403 from usenix.org): stock2016_hey, li2016_youve, nguyen2021_sharefirst, squarcina2021_subdomain, munteanu2025_catch22, utz2023_comparing, stoever2023_owners. Keys generated by bibgen with a guessed first author were renamed to the real one after fetching: findlay2021_securitytxt → poteat2021_securitytxt, curtain2026_behind → stivala2026_behind, keys2025_file → elyadmani2025_keys, tajalizadehkhoob2021_whowas → lu2021_whowas, hlavacek2024_rov → qin2024_rov, elazari2017_legalrisks → gamerogarrido2017_legalrisks, mirian2022_ics → sasaki2022_ics, tatang2022_spfail → bennett2022_spfail. bibgen also emitted the slug in place of the title for cetin2019_cleaning; fixed by hand.
stock2018_didnt was hand-written from the NDSS index record plus the DOI printed in the PDF (10.14722/ndss.2018.23171), since bibgen cannot reach a venue-year with no full text.
What could not be established
- Whether the 22 hand-classified campaigns are the whole set. They are not; 144 candidates were never read. See the TODO above.
- Any response rate from the corpus schema.
ethics.disclosureDetailcarries a countable ratio in 7 of 2,870 cases. Every rate on the content page came from a paper's results section, read by hand. A schema field for “notification outcome, with denominator” would make this page regenerable; there isn't one. - Whether
security.txtcontacts actually work. [6Poteat, Tara; Li, Frank (2021): "Who You Gonna Call? An Empirical Evaluation of Website security.txt Deployment", in: Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference. (DOI)] measured adoption and field validity but never sent anything, and explicitly leaves that to future work. No paper in this corpus tests delivery throughsecurity.txt. This is the most obvious open question on the page and it is five years old. - Current
security.txtadoption. The only corpus figure is from a 2021 paper on a list (Alexa) that was discontinued in 2022. Nothing in the 2022–2026 slice re-measures it. The page therefore gives a 2021 figure and dates it; a reader in 2026 should assume it has risen and has no published number to cite. - Whether the framing effect is real. [2Maass, Max; Stöver, Alina; Pridöhl, Henning; Bretthauer, Sebastian; Herrmann, Dominik; Hollick, Matthias; Spiecker, Indra (2021): "Effective Notification Campaigns on the Web: A Matter of Trust, Framing, and Support", in: Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium. (Link)] found a large, significant fine-framing effect; [3Utz, Christine; Michels, Matthias; Degeling, Martin; Marnau, Ninja; Stock, Ben (2023): "Comparing Large-Scale Privacy and Security Notifications", in: Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies. (DOI)] found none. Different countries, issues, media and populations. The page presents the contradiction rather than picking a side. Resolving it needs a study that varies framing while holding medium and jurisdiction fixed.
- Whether the RCT result generalises. [9Lone, Qasim; Frik, Alisa; Luckie, Matthew; Korczyński, Maciej; van Eeten, Michel; Gañán, Carlos (2022): "Deployment of Source Address Validation by Network Operators: A Randomized Control Trial", in: Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. (DOI)] found no effect on network operators deploying SAV — an expensive, low-visibility configuration change. It does not follow that notification fails for a web vulnerability an operator can fix in ten minutes, and [2Maass, Max; Stöver, Alina; Pridöhl, Henning; Bretthauer, Sebastian; Herrmann, Dominik; Hollick, Matthias; Spiecker, Indra (2021): "Effective Notification Campaigns on the Web: A Matter of Trust, Framing, and Support", in: Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium. (Link)]'s 56.6%-vs-9.2% with a proper control says it does not. The page says the RCT undermines control-free studies, not that notification does not work. A reasonable person could read the page as more pessimistic than the evidence supports; this was the hardest calibration call on it.
- Non-EU/US practice. Every campaign in the table notified operators in Europe, North America or globally, and framing effects rest on German
Impressumlaw. There is nothing here about notifying operators in jurisdictions with no equivalent legal hook. - Venues. EuroS&P, ACSAC, RAID, AsiaCCS, CHI and SOUPS are absent from the corpus. CHI/SOUPS is where much of the operator-facing usable-security work appears, so the page's account of what website owners think and need is thinner than the literature.
Reviewer findings
Four reviewers, all told the context might not be exhaustive, all given the page text, the report script, its output, and these notes. Three focused passes ran in parallel first; the generic pass ran after their findings were applied.
Sonnet — figures against the script
| Finding | Action |
|---|---|
_rdap_base() in find_contacts.py fetches the IANA bootstrap registry with no error handling, so one transient failure raises an uncaught URLError and kills the whole batch — contradicting both the script's docstring and the page's claim that failures are printed. Reviewer reproduced it. | ACCEPTED and fixed. Now raises a RuntimeError naming the URL and the reason, and refuses to continue. Both paths re-tested. |
out/notifying_websites-output.txt is two concatenated runs, so a naive diff against one fresh invocation shows ~305 spurious lines. | ACCEPTED as a documentation gap, not a figure error: head -143 and tail -n +144 each match a fresh run byte-for-byte. Now stated in the Report script section above so the next reviewer is not misled the same way. |
Provenance said “the seven campaigns not on the table” and listed catch-22…, which is on the table. | Already fixed before the reviewer read the file; the count is six. Recorded here because the reviewer independently derived the same arithmetic. |
Every number, percentage and denominator named in the brief — 4,472; 48.3%; 61.0% vs 43.5%; 3.3%; 7.2%; 2,303/2,870; 7/2,870; 2,155/2,870; all nine channel shares; 22/16/144/179 — matches the live script output, cross-checked against extractions.jsonl. | No action. |
Sonnet — citations and quotes
| Finding | Action |
|---|---|
| [13Sasaki, Takayuki; Fujita, Akira; Gañán, Carlos Hernandez; van Eeten, Michel; Yoshioka, Katsunari; Matsumoto, Tsutomu (2022): "Exposed Infrastructures: Discovery, Attacks and Remediation of Insecure ICS Remote Management Devices", in: Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. (DOI)]: the page conflated two different 58% figures — 93 of 160 operators reached (58%) and 58% of devices remediated once reached — and attached the “higher than most previous notification experiments” quote to the wrong one. | Already caught and fixed by the orchestrator before the reviewer reported (see the correction note above); the reviewer confirms the diagnosis independently, which is the strongest evidence the fix is right. |
| [7Stivala, Giada; Mrowczynski, Rafael; Hellenthal, Maria; Pellegrino, Giancarlo (2026): "Behind the Curtain: How Shared Hosting Providers Respond to Vulnerability Notifications", in: Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. (DOI)]: “reports the same thing a decade later” reads as an independent 2026 re-measurement, but the sentence is a related-work summary carrying citations to four earlier papers. | ACCEPTED. The content page now says so in the sentence itself, not only here. |
| [9Lone, Qasim; Frik, Alisa; Luckie, Matthew; Korczyński, Maciej; van Eeten, Michel; Gañán, Carlos (2022): "Deployment of Source Address Validation by Network Operators: A Randomized Control Trial", in: Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. (DOI)]: “found PeeringDB better maintained” is that paper relaying prior work — “we preferred peeringDB because it has been used in previous studies and they found the database up-to-date”. | ACCEPTED, reworded with the paper's own sentence. |
| This provenance page said “22 distinct citation keys”; it is 23. | ACCEPTED, corrected. |
All 23 keys resolve uniquely against the live bibliography (262 entries), no duplicates, no collisions. All 21 new entries have correct author/citekey match, correct titles against data/corpus2/.meta, and DOIs that resolve at doi.org — including stock2018_didnt. Every load-bearing quote across 18 papers confirmed verbatim or as a faithful cross-column splice, including the whole of [1Stock, Ben; Pellegrino, Giancarlo; Li, Frank; Backes, Michael; Rossow, Christian (2018): "Didn't You Hear Me? - Towards More Successful Web Vulnerability Notifications", in: Proceedings of the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium. (DOI)] re-fetched fresh from ndss-symposium.org. | No action. |
| [14Cetin, Orcun; Gañán, Carlos; Altena, Lisette; Kasama, Takahiro; Inoue, Daisuke; Tamiya, Kazuki; Tie, Ying; Yoshioka, Katsunari; van Eeten, Michel (2019): "Cleaning Up the Internet of Evil Things: Real-World Evidence on ISP and Consumer Efforts to Remove Mirai", in: Proceedings of the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium. (Link)]: 74% is specifically the control group's own cleanup rate, not merely the top of the abstract's 58–74% range. | ACCEPTED — this reverted an over-correction. An earlier fix had replaced “74% in the control” with the range across three groups; the reviewer's check of the body text shows “The control group achieved the lowest cleanup rate (74%)”. The page now quotes that, and keeps the “email-only had no observable impact” finding that the same pass surfaced. |
Sonnet — external currency
| Finding | Action |
|---|---|
The content page quotes 2021 security.txt adoption by Alexa rank with no signal that Alexa is defunct; the caveat existed only here, in What could not be established. | ACCEPTED. The caveat is now inline on the page that makes the claim: 2021 measurement, defunct ranking frame, predates RFC 9116, and nothing in the corpus re-measures it. |
| “annually validated by RIPE and ARIN” — ARIN's annual POC verification is in NRPM §3.6 and was fetched; no RIPE primary source states a cadence. | ACCEPTED. Split: ARIN's annual verification is quoted with its source, RIPE's is reduced to “keeps abuse contacts valid” with an explicit note that the cadence could not be verified. |
The footnote saying usenix.org “rejects automated fetches” is too broad — curl with a browser User-Agent returns 200. The reviewer fetched the CFP and confirmed both quoted sentences verbatim. | ACCEPTED, and it upgrades the page: the USENIX claim is no longer cache-based. Re-fetched independently by the orchestrator, quotes confirmed, footnote rewritten to cite the page directly and to note that only WebFetch gets 403. |
| The footnote's “Registration Data Policy took effect … in August 2025” could not be pinned to a primary source. | ACCEPTED. Reduced to what the ICANN site does say (“Now In Effect for Contracted Parties”) with the date removed. |
g.co/vulnz — the address in Google's own security.txt, visible in the script output — now 302-redirects to bughunters.google.com. | NOTED, no change. The published block is a dated run and is accurate as of that run; changing it would falsify the audit trail. Recorded here for anyone re-running the script. |
| RFC 9910 (RDAP RIR Search, January 2026) exists, plus several active REGEXT drafts, but none obsoletes or updates RFC 9082/9083/9224. | NOTED, no change — the page's “current, not superseded” claim holds, and 9910 is a search extension the page has no reason to cite. |
| RFC 9116, RFC 2142, RFC 9082/9083/9224, the ICANN sunset quote, CERT/CC's 45 days, Project Zero's 90+30/7-day policy and the Reporting Transparency trial, NIS2 Article 12(1), HackerOne Disclosure Assistance, Shadowserver, the FIRST directory, the IANA bootstrap, the RIPEstat API, and all four fetchable venue CFP quotes: verified verbatim against primary sources. No dead links on either page. | No action. |
ISO/IEC 29147 / 30111: iso.org 403s for the reviewer too. Because the page makes no edition or revision-status claim, this is a safe non-claim rather than an error. | No action — confirms the earlier decision to cut those claims. |
Nothing was rejected outright
Every substantive finding across the three passes was accepted. Two are worth separating from the rest because they say something about the process rather than the page:
- The figures pass found no figure error at all — every corpus number checked out — but found the one real code defect. Re-running beats re-reading.
- The quotes pass independently reproduced the [13Sasaki, Takayuki; Fujita, Akira; Gañán, Carlos Hernandez; van Eeten, Michel; Yoshioka, Katsunari; Matsumoto, Tsutomu (2022): "Exposed Infrastructures: Discovery, Attacks and Remediation of Insecure ICS Remote Management Devices", in: Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. (DOI)] diagnosis the orchestrator had already made, and caught an over-correction on [14Cetin, Orcun; Gañán, Carlos; Altena, Lisette; Kasama, Takahiro; Inoue, Daisuke; Tamiya, Kazuki; Tie, Ying; Yoshioka, Katsunari; van Eeten, Michel (2019): "Cleaning Up the Internet of Evil Things: Real-World Evidence on ISP and Consumer Efforts to Remove Mirai", in: Proceedings of the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium. (Link)] that the orchestrator's own fix had introduced. A correction is as capable of being wrong as the thing it corrects.
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