Chinese dev jailed and fined for posting DJI's private keys on GitHub

Posted by pizza on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @12:02AM
from the theregister.co.uk dept.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/30/dji_dev_jailed_fined_leaking_aes_ssl_keys_github/

( 6 comments | 14 points | on HN )

Re:Chinese dev jailed and fined for posting DJI's private ke... by NedIsakoff on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @02:08AM (#19794947)

"A Chinese software developer who previously expressed suicidal thoughts has been jailed after putting one of drone company DJI's AES private keys onto Github in plain text."

What are AES private keys? Does this mean there's AES public keys? When did AES become a public key crypto system?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Chinese dev jailed and fined for posting DJI's private ke... by taneq on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @03:32AM (#19795200)

Just think, journalists get everything this wrong, not just things that you know a lot about.

http://harmful.cat-v.org/journalism/gell-mann-amnesia-effect

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Chinese dev jailed and fined for posting DJI's private ke... by andygates on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @06:44AM (#19795940)

The Reg is unusually bad, though. When they can't get plain science or tech right, it's time to not read them any more.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Chinese dev jailed and fined for posting DJI's private ke... by tannerwj on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @11:29AM (#19797983)

It was probably just the shared secret, but private key sounds more techy.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Chinese dev jailed and fined for posting DJI's private ke... by kkarakk on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @01:22AM (#19794736)

yup that's how i'd imagine that'd go. nice insight into DJI's dev practices, any happless shmuck can access their keys and accidentally upload them to github(i know i've done that accidentally for my personal projects)

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Chinese dev jailed and fined for posting DJI's private ke... by genai on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @01:56AM (#19794885)

Crikey

[ Parent | on HN ]