Private Pierce

Exposure Self-Map

This tool organizes only the statuses and counts entered on this page. It searches for no one, checks no site, assigns no exposure level, and keeps no copy of the map.

By Andrew PierceScope: Records category statuses and counts, and compares them with one earlier map. It checks no site and adds no counts across categories.

Privacy: This tool sends nothing and stores nothing; what you enter stays in this tab. It reads only an earlier file you choose and makes only the map you download. The site itself uses analytics and stores a theme setting.

Build the exposure self-map

Choose a status for each category and enter a whole-number count only when the selected status asks for one; the tool accepts no name, address, URL, site, article title, note, or label.

Your map will appear here when the page opens.

The seven categories, their units, and the available statuses are definitions of this tool rather than an external standard. Its numbers come only from the reader's entries or from counting the categories in each status.

What does the exposure self-map answer?

It shows what the reader recorded in each category, how many categories carry each status, and how those records differ from one valid earlier export.

The map does not answer how exposed anyone is. It records one status per category and a count only where that status accepts one.

How do you read the output?

Read each category's status and count separately, then read the status counts as counts of category records rather than as a combined exposure total.

  • Found some prints the whole-number count entered for that category.
  • Found none means the reader recorded none; it does not mean the place holds nothing.
  • Could not check and Not checked yet remain separate from Found none.
  • The result counts categories by status but does not add category counts into a grand total, score, level, grade, or rating.
  • Where-to-look links point to pages of this site when those routes exist; the tool does not read values from those pages.

What does the dated baseline contain?

The export contains the map date plus the fixed category ids, statuses, and counts recorded here, and nothing else.

The date comes from the reader's local calendar. The file contains no name, note, address, item, page address, or time of day, and the tool keeps no copy after offering the download. Calling the export a baseline describes its dated record; the page does not prescribe what to change or when.

How are CAPTCHA and inaccessible portals recorded?

The Portals behind a CAPTCHA category remains Not checked yet or is recorded as Could not check, with an optional count of portals that could not be searched.

A blank optional portal count means the reader did not count the blocked portals. Could not check remains unknown and is never converted to Found none.

How are dated exports compared without storing them?

A valid earlier map is read in the page and compared category by category with the current record, then discarded when the comparison is removed or the page is left.

  • The comparison reports the earlier map's date and the two recorded states only when that category is complete in both maps; an incomplete category prints Not compared.
  • It does not combine categories or describe a change as good, bad, improved, reduced, or caused by anything.
  • A file that is not a strict export from this tool is refused without showing its contents.
  • Loading the file does not upload it, store it, or turn it into a link.

Does the tool record effort, cost, or controls changed?

No. The tool and its export have no field for effort, cost, controls changed, or any free-text ledger.

Any ledger the reader maintains is outside this tool. The self-map neither imports nor compares that separate record and makes no claim about it.

What happens to the map on this page?

The tool writes nothing to browser storage, the page address, the clipboard, analytics, the console, or a remote service, and the on-page map returns to its defaults after the page is left or reloaded.

The downloaded JSON file is the reader's record. This tool sends nothing and stores nothing; what you enter stays in this tab. The site itself uses analytics and stores a theme setting. The tool does not search, contact, inspect, submit to, or remove anything from another site.

What does this tool not claim?

It does not measure anyone's exposure, interpret what a count means, evaluate a change, verify a search, or provide legal or financial advice.

  • A count is what the reader recorded, not a finding made by the tool.
  • The categories and their count units are this tool's definitions, not a universal method or standard.
  • The tool does not check whether the same company or site appears in more than one category, remove duplicates, or add counts across categories.
  • It cannot see a place the reader could not find or check.
  • A comparison shows two sets of recorded numbers and does not identify a cause or consequence.
  • The map is not a removal tool; linked pages may describe mechanisms, but this tool does not use them.
  • The downloaded file contains categories, statuses, counts, and a date; the tool keeps no copy.