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by saagarjha 2319 days ago
…but they're public keys.
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This. Exactly what are we afraid of here? It's working as designed.
It's not directly a security problem as in your computer is gonna get hacked, but it can ruin your opsec if you don't want people to realize that you're the person controlling a specific key.
I would hope if you're doing serious opsec you're using ephemeral keys or isolated virtual environments for various endeavors.
Yep. I would also hope if you're 'doing opsec' you would know how your tools work.
You are definitely right in that the public keys themselves don’t present a threat. I think on a penetration test this would show up as “Information Revealed” rather than something that is “Exploitable”. By sharing a username - you might be able to correlate this person to other platforms and technically increase your attack surface area.