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GitHub SSH key is Leaked - How bad is this?

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

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The Problem With Github's Public Key

The private key of github always has a matching public key and that public key shared to hundreds of millions devices. If someone's if someone took that private key right like with a way machine the way my machine maybe has archived it someone sniffed it and got that because there was like a brief period of time where they pushed their private key accidentallyIf someone got it then they can create an sss server and they can put their private key on the rsa ssh key as a host key so it can place it there. You are pretending to be GitHub but there is one problem you now have to get the second one.

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