Chain of custody receipt

Source #2819

Cryptographic attestation that the document below was captured in Goblin House's archive at the timestamp shown, with the hash listed. If the original URL goes dark or its content changes, this receipt remains as evidence of what the public record looked like at capture time.

TitleStatista analysis of USASpending.gov data
Original URLhttps://theconversation.com/when-the-government-can-see-everything-how-one-company-palantir-is-mapping-the-nations-data-263178
PublicationDirected Inquiry — Web Search
Source typeweb_search
Date2011-01-01
EntityUS Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
Captured2026-04-08T17:48:41.955Z UTC
Hash computed at2026-04-08T17:48:41.955Z UTC
SHA-256b155a39068b1588674036aeb33f2d658cb057f99df71a483e32a5330d7005728
Content length129 bytes
Content preview (first 800 chars) 
The first contract between ICE and Palantir was from 2011, covering $58,122 for Dell servers, Cloud Server licensing and training

Verifying this receipt

The hash above was computed as:

sha256( coalesce(url, '<no-url>') || '\n' || raw_content )

Anyone with a copy of the original document can verify the match:

  1. Take the URL field and the original document content.
  2. Concatenate url + '\n' + content and SHA-256 it.
  3. Compare to the SHA-256 row above.

Or POST the candidate content to /source/2819/verify and our server will compare for you:

curl -X POST https://www.goblinhouse.net/source/2819/verify \
  -H "Content-Type: text/plain" \
  --data-binary @document.txt

Companion machine-readable receipt: /source/2819/receipt.json