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Veen on March 24, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: We updated our RSA SSH host key

It says exactly that in the article:

> This week, we discovered that GitHub.com’s RSA SSH private key was briefly exposed in a public GitHub repository

Hilarious.

theteapot on March 24, 2023 | [–]

I didn't read it fully before commenting. I'm sorry.

comprev on March 25, 2023 | | [–]

If everyone read the entire article of each HN submission the comments section would be wildly different :-)

adrr on March 24, 2023 | [–]

I can’t see that could ever happen. Is the key just floating around on their employees computers and skeins accidentally committed it?

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