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I rented a car, and within hours, my driver's license was for sale (arstechnica.com)
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[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Registering SSL is a centralized process with root CAs logging new ones as they come in. Cert transparency logs are a thing, and Google is very involved: https://certificate.transparency.dev/

Once a bad actor hooks up to that, they just get a realtime stream of places to start port scanning and running WHOIS queries for people who didn't get WHOIS protection. If you used letsencrypt your domains you registered certs for got sent there and anyone who wanted to know about it knew about it before you could tell anyone.

You can use something like crt.sh to look up domains