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Re:Show HN: Invite friends to SSH into your laptop using the... by schlowmo on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @04:47PM (#13486530)
This was the API Ben Cox used to gather more than a million of public keys from (active) Github users to analyze their strength or weakness, which finally led GitHub to revoke the vulnerable/weak keys and notify the users.[0]

Edit: Better source.

[0] https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/auditing-github-users-keys

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