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knweiss
on Feb 2, 2013
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Twitter Hacked – 250,000 User Accounts Potentially...
That's why you should use ssh-agent and protect your private key with a passphrase.
0x0
on Feb 2, 2013
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It's useful, but if an attacker got a shell on the dev laptop, I assume he could just coredump the ssh-agent process and steal the unlocked key from there.
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