Pluralistic: Too big to care (04 Apr 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14100831

"No, seriously. All those things Google couldn’t find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and ov

  • foggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    8 months ago

    No, as in they are public record.

    If you use a wildcard let’s encrypt SSL to encrypt www.mydomain.com and VPS.mydomain.com and secret.mydomain.com and allmyporn.mydomain.com, and Plex.mydomain.com, and gitlab.mydomain.com

    Then it is public record that mydomain.com has associated with it the CNAMES “www” “VPS” “secret” “allmyporn” “Plex” and “gitlab”.

    It can be looked up by anyone here. Just type in “%.yourdomain”

    That is to say if you use a wildcard letsencrypt SSL on all your subdomains for you self hosting project, you’re more exposed than want to be.

    • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
      32·
      8 months ago

      No it’s not. I have several wildcards. Your tool doesn’t show any of the subdomains i have then used on. Go hit %.saik0.com and show me where lemmy.saik0.com shows up. I’ll wait.

        • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
          73·
          8 months ago

          Bro check again… This time actually follow instructions.

          Search for LEMMY.SAIK0.COM… Notice it’s not there even though my instance clearly exists and has an SSL cert.

          What you’re seeing is certs from over a year ago. You’re seeing domains I registered specifically. eg… not ones I’ve associated with a wildcard.

          Next time make sure you’re actually right before you act so confident.

          Here’s a list of subdomains that are under a wildcard SSL cert… That will not show up in that list since they were never registered for their own cert and only EVER operated under the wildcard one.

          convert.saik0.com
          esign.saik0.com
          lemmy.saik0.com
          wordgame.saik0.com
          yt.saik0.com

          And there’s plenty more I could point out. But if you follow instructions and actually search, you’ll see that those do exist as accessible subdomains and do not show up in the crt.sh tool.

          Edit: LMFAO so you downvoted me… checked my shit and realized that you’re wrong. Deleted your message and kept your downvote in place.

          Edit2: For those coming after the fact and maybe not liking my initial tone at the top there. I mirrored the tone they posted in.