if you just recently created a website with TLS certs from an official CA and you immediately find slop bots crawling it in your web logs... it's probably because of certificate transparency logs.
you bet your ass they're constantly watching and parsing those logs to find new sites to steal data from so they can sell it back to you later.
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2026-05-06 14:19:37 UTC
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wss://relay.ditto.pubPublished at
2026-05-06 14:19:37 UTCEvent JSON
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