“How can people get into my locked door if I don’t tape a key to it for them to use?”

If the private key is public, it does nothing by definition and it may as well not exist!

Just use plain text, HTTP, or whatever and stop fooling yourself.

It’s like calling an open field a “secure facility”.

The name is not the thing, the map is not the territory.

Private keys are only private if they’re not public.

You're not sharing the key to your house, you're sharing the key to one of the biggest skyscrapers in the world.

And now everyone is up in arms that they changed the locks.

Get it? Get it?

This is a private key to access Apple's service for a proof of concept. How is someone without access to an Apple device going to obtain such a key without it being distributed somehow?

Nobody is surprised that Apple is able to revoke this key, by the way.

Please make your substantive points without swipes (like "What are you talking about" and "your schtick"), no matter how bad another comment is or you feel it is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edited.

Can you please not post in the flamewar style? It's not what we're going for here, and you can make your substantive points without that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: it looks like we've had to warn you about this multiple times before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32039759 (July 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27225044 (May 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22938445 (April 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21808005 (Dec 2019)

We have to eventually ban accounts that keep breaking the rules like this. I don't want to ban you, so if you'd please review them and stick to them from now on, we'd appreciate it.

This isn't about taping a key to _your_ front door—you're taping a key to Apple's.

Yea, and like anyone who found out that someone taped the key to their door to their door, they changed the locks, and now everyone's mad at them.