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Comment by giaour

> Your Pubkey can be used to cross-match multiple identities. Example: You have different coding personae. One that is activist, one that is company-peon. Different accounts, same SSH pubkey in Github or other server with publicly listed pubkeys --> Same person confirmed.

Doesn’t GitHub only allow a key to be associated with a single account? After all, they use it to authenticate SSH pushes.

The privacy worry here is a little more esoteric —- your SSH public key could be used to cross match your GitHub user account with an account on a different system.

parent giaour 5 years ago

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