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hamdingerstoday at 4:57 PM2 repliesview on HN

Get a letsencrypt cert, I always get a massive wave of vulnerability probers after renewing.


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mmh0000today at 7:47 PM

It's all TLS certs, because they show up in the Transparency Log[1]

You can watch a live stream of it here: https://bencevans.io/security/certificate-stream

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_Transparency

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essephtoday at 6:15 PM

Because your certificate shows up in the global chain, which triggers all kinds of automated things including bots