= Possible HTML information leaks
This section is about possible real-world information leaks found in the HTML of the pages. Domain <IP and DNS metadata>[DNS metadata] may of course expose more, and is more likely to do so, this section is only about in-page findings, notably in the HTML.
We haven found much so far, but the ones we have are curious.
The HTML `<title>` of https://web.archive.org/web/20110207150839/http://webofcheer.com/[webofcheer.com] is cryptically set as:
``
pg1c
``
rather than a more natural title like "Web of cheer" as is the case for the other website. This feels like a forgotten placeholder for an internal page identifier, e.g. "page 1C" sounds plausible. At <HTML title element>{full} we riefly inspected the `<title>` of every other hit with a wayback machine archive, and unfortunately none other seemed to have any such interesting title.
The https://web.archive.org/web/20100724024623/http://www.europeantravelcafe.com/[2010 archive of europeantravelcafe.com] has a "plan your trip" link links to a different domain: https://secure-cert.net/~etc/transport.html[]. This appears to have been a link to the system used by CIA operators to manage the website. Furthermore, the link then was later https://web.archive.org/web/20110201192245/http://europeantravelcafe.com/[removed from the 2011 version], so it was almost certainly a leak! "secure-cert.net" is obscure, the only other surviving online mention of it is https://www.leewillis.co.uk/wordpress-plugins/#comment-6513[] to
http://secure-cert.net/~sayitint/products-page/bags-totes/duffel-bag/ We've grepped all the HTML downloaded as <HTML analysis> but no other links to it were found.
\Image[https://github.com/cirosantilli/media/blob/master/cia-2010-covert-communication-websites/screenshots/www.europeantravelcafe.com-arrow.jpg?raw=true]
{title=2010 <Wayback Machine> archive of https://web.archive.org/web/20100724024623/http://www.europeantravelcafe.com/[www.europeantravelcafe.com] with "plan your trip" highlighted by us}
{height=1024}
{source=https://web.archive.org/web/20100724024623/http://www.europeantravelcafe.com/}
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