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dolmen 9 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: XZ backdoor: "It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated...

Your SSH public keys used on GitHub are very publicly exposed.

This information could be used by SSH servers you are connecting to. You might think you are connecting anonymously, while in fact your SSH client is sending your public key which could then be resolved to your GitHub account.

jcalvinowens 9 months ago [–]

I don't get it. How do you end up with shell access on a machine you don't trust to know your identity?

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