== Per-install operator handle for every third-party API call ==
Before this PR, every Shadowbroker install identified itself to
Wikipedia, Wikidata, Nominatim, GDELT, OpenMHz, Broadcastify,
weather.gov, NUFORC, Sentinel/Planetary Computer, TinyGS / CelesTrak,
Shodan, Finnhub, and others with a single project-wide User-Agent
("Shadowbroker/1.0" or "ShadowBroker-OSINT/1.0"). From the upstream's
perspective every install in the world looked like one giant scraper.
If one install misbehaved, the upstream's only recourse was to block
"Shadowbroker" as a whole.
PR #284 inadvertently doubled down on this in the frontend by
introducing a shared `WIKIMEDIA_API_USER_AGENT` constant. This PR
retrofits both backends to per-operator attribution.
New setting: OPERATOR_HANDLE (env var / settings UI / auto-gen)
New helper: network_utils.outbound_user_agent("purpose")
The handle is auto-generated as "operator-XXXXXX" on first call (the
"shadow-" prefix from earlier drafts was deliberately dropped — too
suspicious-looking for abuse-detection systems). Operators can
override via OPERATOR_HANDLE; the value is sanitized to lowercase
alphanumeric+dash+underscore and capped at 48 chars. Persisted to
backend/data/operator_handle.json so it survives container restarts.
Retrofitted call sites (every previously-MONSTER User-Agent):
- services/region_dossier.py (Wikipedia + Wikidata + Nominatim)
- services/geocode.py (Nominatim)
- services/sentinel_search.py (Microsoft Planetary Computer)
- services/feed_ingester.py (operator-curated RSS feeds)
- services/fetchers/earth_observation.py (weather.gov, NUFORC)
- services/fetchers/infrastructure.py
- services/fetchers/aircraft_database.py
- services/fetchers/route_database.py
- services/fetchers/trains.py
- services/fetchers/meshtastic_map.py
- services/shodan_connector.py
- services/unusual_whales_connector.py (Finnhub)
- services/tinygs_fetcher.py (CelesTrak + TinyGS)
- services/sar/sar_products_client.py
- services/geopolitics.py (GDELT)
- services/radio_intercept.py (Broadcastify + OpenMHz)
- routers/cctv.py + main.py (CCTV proxy)
- routers/ai_intel.py
- scripts/convert_power_plants.py (release-time data refresh)
Spoofed browser UAs removed (issues #289 / #290 / #291 — tg12 audit):
- cloudscraper-based Chrome impersonation against api.openmhz.com
-> replaced with honest requests + per-install UA
- Mozilla/5.0 spoofed UA on Broadcastify scrape
-> replaced with honest UA
- Mozilla/5.0 + fake first-party Referer on OpenMHz audio relay
-> replaced with honest UA
- cloudscraper dependency dropped from pyproject.toml + uv.lock
Frontend retrofit:
- new GET /api/settings/operator-handle endpoint (local-operator
gated) returns the install's handle
- frontend/src/lib/wikimediaClient.ts fetches the handle once on
first use, caches it for page lifetime, embeds it in the
Api-User-Agent for every Wikipedia / Wikidata browser-direct call
== GDELT GCS-direct fix ==
GDELT's data.gdeltproject.org is a CNAME to a Google Cloud Storage
bucket. GCS responds with the wildcard *.storage.googleapis.com cert
which legitimately does NOT cover the GDELT custom domain, so Python's
TLS verification correctly refuses the connection. Some networks
happen to route through a path where this works; many (notably Docker
Desktop's outbound NAT on local installs) do not. Verified on the
maintainer's local install: GDELT was unreachable; 1610 geopolitical
events / 48 export files were dropping silently.
Fix: services/geopolitics._gcs_direct_gdelt_url() rewrites any
data.gdeltproject.org URL to its GCS-direct equivalent
(storage.googleapis.com/data.gdeltproject.org/...) where the standard
GCS cert is genuinely valid. api.gdeltproject.org and every other host
are left untouched.
Confirmed live: backend log goes from
GDELT lastupdate failed: 500
to
Downloading 48 GDELT export files...
Downloaded 48/48 GDELT exports
GDELT parsed: 1610 conflict locations from 48 files
== Tests ==
backend/tests/test_per_operator_outbound_attribution.py (12 tests)
backend/tests/test_gdelt_gcs_direct_rewrite.py (6 tests)
backend/tests/test_region_dossier_wikimedia_ua.py (updated to
pin the helper + per-operator handle, not the old constant)
frontend/src/__tests__/utils/wikimediaClient.test.ts (rewritten
to mock /api/settings/operator-handle and assert per-operator UA)
Local: backend 114/114 security+audit+round7a suite green;
frontend 718/718 vitest suite green.
Credit: tg12 (external security audit, issues #289/#290/#291
relating to spoofed UAs); BigBodyCobain (operator-prefix call,
GDELT cloud-vs-local diagnosis).
PR #227 hardened most Wormhole/Infonet control surfaces behind
require_local_operator and made the CrowdThreat fetcher opt-in. An
audit of the codebase against that PR's stated goals turned up four
classes of gap that the original change missed:
1. Two operator-only endpoints were left unprotected:
- POST /api/wormhole/join: calls bootstrap_wormhole_identity() and
flips the node into Tor mode, exactly the surface #227 hardened
on /api/wormhole/identity/bootstrap.
- POST /api/sigint/transmit: relays APRS-IS packets over radio
using operator-supplied credentials. Anything that reached the
API could transmit on the operator's authority.
Both now require_local_operator. test_control_surface_auth.py
extended with regression coverage for both.
2. Five third-party fetchers were still default-on, phoning home to
politically/commercially sensitive upstreams on every poll cycle:
- fimi.py -> euvsdisinfo.eu -> FIMI_ENABLED
- prediction_markets -> Polymarket + Kalshi -> PREDICTION_MARKETS_ENABLED
- financial.py -> Finnhub / yfinance -> FINANCIAL_ENABLED or FINNHUB_API_KEY
- nuforc_enrichment -> huggingface.co -> NUFORC_ENABLED
- news.py -> configured RSS feeds -> NEWS_ENABLED (default on, kill switch)
Same CrowdThreat-style pattern: explicit env-var opt-in, empty
the data slot and mark_fresh when disabled. New regression test
file test_third_party_fetchers_opt_in.py asserts each fetcher's
network entry point is not called when its gate is off.
3. The outbound User-Agent leaked both the operator's personal email
and a fork-specific GitHub URL on every fetcher request. Consolidated
to a single DEFAULT_USER_AGENT in network_utils.py, project-generic
by default (no contact info), overridable via SHADOWBROKER_USER_AGENT
for operators who want to identify themselves (e.g. for Nominatim or
weather.gov usage-policy compliance). Six call sites updated; the
Nominatim-specific override is preserved.
4. The same generic UA now also flows through the peer prekey lookup
in mesh_wormhole_prekey.py, so DM first-contact requests no longer
identify the caller as a Shadowbroker fork to the peer being
queried.
.env.example updated to document all new opt-in env vars.
Tests: backend/tests/test_control_surface_auth.py (extended),
backend/tests/test_crowdthreat_opt_in.py (unchanged, still passes),
backend/tests/test_third_party_fetchers_opt_in.py (new, 7 tests).
All 31 tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ship the v0.9.79 runtime refresh with transport lane isolation, Infonet secure-message address management, MeshChat MQTT controls, selected asset trail behavior, telemetry panel refinements, onboarding updates, and desktop/package metadata alignment.
Also ignore local graphify work products so analysis folders do not leak into future commits.
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