Mike Stone on Nostr: It's pretty surprising the number of people that ask for my private SSH key. I'm not ...
It's pretty surprising the number of people that ask for my private SSH key. I'm not talking scammers here either, just random people at work that don't seem to understand how public/private key systems work.
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