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Re:Twitter Hacked – 250,000 User Accounts Potentially Compro... by knweiss on Saturday February 02, 2013 @05:05PM (#5157555)
That's why you should use ssh-agent and protect your private key with a passphrase.
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Re:Twitter Hacked – 250,000 User Accounts Potentially Compro... by 0x0 on Saturday February 02, 2013 @05:43PM (#5157692)
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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