Research

Signals

Observations from the traffic passing through JunkGate. There are none here yet, and this page explains precisely what has to be true before there are.

Nothing is published yet

We do not have enough traffic for a claim about what contact forms receive to mean anything. Saying so plainly costs us a page that would look impressive and buys the only thing that makes the rest of this library worth reading.

The threshold

Before any pattern from our own traffic appears here, it must rest on:

These are enforced by the software that builds this site. A document claiming a first-party number without declaring its sample and period does not render with a caveat, it stops the site from starting. We would rather take the site down than publish a figure we cannot support.

They will not be lowered to fit the data. If they ever change, the change and its reason will be dated on the methodology page.

What we will never publish

Not now and not at any sample size: the contents of anyone's messages, anything that identifies a business or a sender, or cell counts small enough to identify. The people who fill in our customers' contact forms never agreed to anything with us, and their words are not our material.

In the meantime

The threat brief is what we actually know right now, attributed to the sources it came from, with the date each was read. Last reviewed 10 August 2026.

What we have already published and got wrong is in the corrections log, dated.

We publish how our claims are measured, not the signals used to reach a verdict.