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Olivier Forget

@grishka @cwebber The thing about private keys is that you have to tell people:

- don't lose it ever so make backups
- make sure nobody ever gets to see it

These two things are hard to do together, particularly for non-tech people.

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Chris Messina

@teleclimber @grishka @cwebber Like most technical decisions, it requires a set of tradeoffs that exist in the context of a broader society, much of which is not technically literate, and which does not [currently] have the time, attention, motivation, or interest to care about these subtleties.

Only once they've fucked themselves by losing their keys do they suddenly care, when it is too late.

And we just have to assume this is our social operating environment, forevermore.

Eunakria

@teleclimber @grishka @cwebber it's hard to do even for tech people! I'll be the first to admit that my SSH key backup solution is a fucking disaster

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