The public log
Every record the site counts is written to a public, append-only log. Nothing in it can be changed or taken out without everyone who checks it noticing.
What it's for
Leaderboards are only worth something if nobody, us included, can quietly edit them. So every kill, death and bounty record that reaches the site goes into a transparency log: the same kind of log that keeps web certificates honest. The site's numbers are worked out from the log's contents.
How it's checked
- The log publishes a signed checkpoint: its size and a fingerprint of everything in it.
- Every desktop app remembers the last checkpoint it saw, and checks that each new one still contains everything the old one did. A log that shrank or was rewritten fails that check, and the app says so.
- Each record in it is signed by the player's own app key, so a record can't be forged in someone's name.
Look for yourself
The log is called wanteddeadordead.com/log. The latest checkpoint is at /log/checkpoint, and the rest follows the open tlog-tiles layout, so any standard tool can read it.