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Cyber Dust

Communication — Self destructing text messages [Tech]
Communicationest. 2014
→ Redirected
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 19, 2026
Pulse 16.0 · 1/4
16.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
16
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
3
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

The recorded URL now redirects offsite — often an acquisition, rebrand, or wind-down; the destination is recorded in the telemetry below. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days. Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
16 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 19, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 16 probesavg response 2674 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
usedust.com
edge
direct origin
server
Apache/2.4.66 () OpenSSL/1.0.2k-fips PHP/8.1.29
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Cyber Dust's listed URL redirected off its original domain (to https://usedust.com/) when we last probed it on Aug 19, 2026 — we mark it redirected, not dead. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 3 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
TulaBytesecuritytag-overlap100%8.00.0— unverified
Playtestgamingtag-overlap100%16.00.0→ redirected
Confidential CCcommunicationsimilar100%— unverified
CoverMecommunicationsimilar100%40.00.0● live
You & Mecommunicationsimilar100%11.70.0— unverified
Poofcommunicationsimilar100%16.0+8.0→ redirected
X-VPNsecuritytag-overlap100%48.00.0● live
Sentinel dVPNsecuritytag-overlap100%44.40.0● live

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelunknown
Liveness tierunknown
Competitive alternativesnone linked
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-19 15:01Z200cyberdust.com → usedust.comApache/2.4.66 () OpenSSL/1.0.2k-fips PHP/8.1.294390redirected_offsite
2026-08-11 14:12Z200cyberdust.com → usedust.comApache/2.4.66 () OpenSSL/1.0.2k-fips PHP/8.1.294306redirected_offsite
2026-08-08 23:52Z200cyberdust.com → usedust.comApache/2.4.66 () OpenSSL/1.0.2k-fips PHP/8.1.292366redirected_offsite
2026-08-05 19:45Z200cyberdust.com → usedust.comApache/2.4.66 () OpenSSL/1.0.2k-fips PHP/8.1.293457redirected_offsite
2026-07-30 19:01Z200cyberdust.com → usedust.comApache/2.4.66 () OpenSSL/1.0.2k-fips PHP/8.1.291831redirected_offsite
2026-07-26 15:42Z200cyberdust.com → usedust.comApache/2.4.66 () OpenSSL/1.0.2k-fips PHP/8.1.291974redirected_offsite
2026-07-18 12:28Z200cyberdust.com → usedust.comApache/2.4.66 () OpenSSL/1.0.2k-fips PHP/8.1.292853redirected_offsite
2026-07-12 09:44Z200cyberdust.com → usedust.comApache/2.4.66 () OpenSSL/1.0.2k-fips PHP/8.1.295481redirected_offsite
2026-07-04 13:46Z200cyberdust.com → usedust.comApache/2.4.66 () OpenSSL/1.0.2k-fips PHP/8.1.292040redirected_offsite
2026-06-23 14:57Z200cyberdust.com → usedust.comApache/2.4.66 () OpenSSL/1.0.2k-fips PHP/8.1.292289redirected_offsite
2026-06-21 18:01Z200cyberdust.com → usedust.comApache/2.4.66 () OpenSSL/1.0.2k-fips PHP/8.1.29706redirected_offsite
2026-06-21 18:01Z200cyberdust.com → usedust.comApache/2.4.66 () OpenSSL/1.0.2k-fips PHP/8.1.292081redirected_offsite
2026-06-20 07:25Z200cyberdust.com → usedust.comApache/2.4.66 () OpenSSL/1.0.2k-fips PHP/8.1.291945redirected_offsite
2026-06-19 05:52Z200cyberdust.com → usedust.comApache/2.4.66 () OpenSSL/1.0.2k-fips PHP/8.1.291716redirected_offsite
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Cyber Dust · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/cyber-dust-2 · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.