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brians
on Aug 16, 2016
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Fake Linus Torvalds' Key Found in the Wild, No Mor...
So the evil32 people kept the private keys. That's exciting.
mpasternacki
on Aug 16, 2016
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Not necessarily, they might have just generated revokation certs which are separate (so that they can be used in case your private key is lost). Keeping a revokation cert would be a responsible thing to do, just in case something like this happens.
lilyball
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They had an old backup that contained the private keys. See this comment
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12298230
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