A paving vendor's homepage looks newly redesigned, but the footer still names an LLC that the state's business search shows as dissolved. How should the OSINT researcher treat that mismatch?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
Think of the footer like a leftover name tag on a freshly painted truck — the paint job does not prove who legally owns the company. Public page text can lag or contradict the registered business name. Pull the filings and write the conflict down; do not turn the website into a scan target.
Full Explanation
Website OSINT treats on-page identity claims as public artifacts that may be stale, copied, or simply wrong. A dissolved LLC in the footer against a current brand is a due-diligence conflict to be resolved with secretary-of-state-class filings and other public records. Scanning or demanding administrative access is outside PORP-scope collection. The report should cite both the live page and the legal-name source so procurement can see the mismatch.