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> I wonder how does it match my public key at github? > Does it use a popular accounts index, or maybe he crawled a bit? Ben Cartwright-Cox (aka. benjojo) [1]
by guessmyname 7y ago
> I wonder how does it match my public key at github?
> Does it use a popular accounts index, or maybe he crawled a bit?
Ben Cartwright-Cox (aka. benjojo) [1] crawled many “github.com/USERNAME.keys” some time ago [2].
Filippo, being colleagues, probably asked for a copy of his database to run this experiment.
For example, here are the public SSH keys Linus Torvalds uses on GitHub [3].
[1] https://github.com/benjojo https://github.com/benjojo
[2] https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/auditing-github-users-keys https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/auditing-github-users-keys
[3] https://github.com/torvalds.keys https://github.com/torvalds.keys