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		INTPenis on March 24, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We updated our RSA SSH host key >This week, we discovered that GitHub.com’s RSA SSH private key was briefly exposed in a public GitHub repository. Let's remove the words briefly exposed and public. Why is a private key in a Git repository? These days I don't see any reason for this.

contradictioned on March 24, 2023 [–]

Of course, there is no reason. But humans make errors, and humans deal with those errors.

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