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by walrus01 44 days ago
It looks like a failed key replacement during a scheduled maintenance event. Normally this sort of thing is thoroughly tested and has multiple eyes on for detailed review and planning before changes get committed, but obviously something got missed.
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.ru [had this](https://habr.com/ru/news/790214/) in 2024. On the other hand, the russian government in itself had been doing a stellar job at breaking the internet.

(I hope I'll live to see them all sentenced to life without parole)

Would be interesting to know how something could get missed. You'd think the system was set up so that new keys could not be published without being verified working in a staging system.