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by misterjinx 3970 days ago
why would they? after all they are public keys, they are supposed to be public. if you really are afraid of github exposing your public key, I think you can always create a separate pair to use only with github.
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And in some sense github is doing as a favour, by partially solving the key distribution problem.

If you send me your public key via email, I don't know whether you are who you claim you are. If I get your public key via github, at least I know that you are the person contributing to all those open source projects.