CIA 2010 covert communication websites HTML title element Updated 2025-05-09 +Created 2025-05-07
The discoverty of a possible HTML information leaks on HTML motivated us to download all HTML and have a grep.
<title> of webofcheer.com which is cryptically set as:pg1cWe started grepping with:and to just get the titles alone for visual inspection:
grep -ai '<title>' */index.htmlgrep -ahi '<title>' */index.html | sed -r 's/^\s*<title>//;s/<\/title>.*//'Some mildly interesting facts include:It is impossible to tell if these were oversights, or intentional to simulate common web development quircks. But they are cute in any case.
- opensourcenewstoday.com is titled just as "Title"
opensourcenewstoday.com/index.html:<title>Title</title> - a few sites are titled "Untitled Document" e.g.:This may have been the default title in Adobe Dreamweaver.
media-coverage-now.com/index.html:<title>Untitled Document</title> newsandsportscentral.com/index.html: <title>Untitled Document</title> newsincirculation.com/index.html:<title>Untitled Document</title> newsworldsite.com/index.html:<title>Untitled Document</title> primetimemovies.net/index.html:<title>Untitled Document</title> unganadormundial.com/index.html:<title>Untitled Document</title> - some others have empty title:
aeronet-news.com/index.html:<title></title> al-rashidrealestate.com/index.html: <title></title> arabicnewsunfiltered.com/index.html:<title></title> dailynewsandsports.com/index.html:<title></title> electronictechreviews.com/index.html:<title></title> indirectfreekick.com/index.html:<title></title> iran-newslink-today.com/index.html:<title></title> iraniangoals.com/index.html:<title></title> kickitnews.com/index.html:<title></title> mediocampodefutbol.com/index.html:<title></title> middle-east-newstoday.com/index.html: <title></title> mygadgettech.com/index.html:<title></title> sayaara-auto.com/index.html:<title></title> techwatchtoday.com/index.html:<title></title> the-open-book-online.com/index.html:<title></title> thenewsofpakistan.com/index.html:<title></title> theworld-news.net/index.html:<title></title> todaysengineering.com/index.html:<title></title> todaysnewsreports.net/index.html:<title></title> worldnewsandent.com/index.html:<title></title> - some others are titled just "index" or a variant of it:
all-sport-headlines.com/index.html:<title>index</title> europeannewsflash.com/index.html:<title>Index</title> fgnl.net/index.html:<title>Index Page</title> iraniangoalkicks.com/index.html:<title>index</title> just-the-news.com/index.html:<title>index</title> mide-news.com/index.html:<title>index</title> mytravelopian.com/index.html:<title>Index</title> noticiasdelmundolatino.com/index.html:<title>index</title> pakcricketgrd.com/index.html: <title>index</title> pangawana.com/index.html:<title>index</title> sportsnewsfinder.com/index.html:<title>index</title> thenewseditor.com/index.html:<title>index</title> turkishnewslinks.com/index.html:<title>index2</title> wahidfutbol.com/index.html:<title>index</title> webscooper.com/index.html:<title>index</title> webworldsports.com/index.html:<title>index</title> - a few don't have
<title>at all:b2bworldglobal.com/index.html bailandstump.com/index.html businessexchangetoday.com/index.html commercialspacedesign.com/index.html court-masters.com/index.html flyingtimeline.com/index.html marketflows.net/index.html nouvellesetdesrapports.com/index.html senderosdemontana.com/index.html sixty2media.com/index.htm