NBD: Adobe just dumped its private PGP key on the internet An absent-minded security staffer just accidentally leaked Adobe's private PGP key onto the internet. The disclosure was spotted by security researcher Juho Nurminen – who found the key on the Photoshop giant's Product Security Incident Response Team blog, ironically. That contact page should have only included the public PGP …
Who needs hackers when there are people with the keys to the kingdom that simply hand them over.
Should we give up on computer security? Is this too beyond the ability of average human beings to comprehend? Should we call ourselves apes and go back to the jungle?
No. I believe this is all about our continuing to live in The Dark Age of Computing. Let's hurry up the computer renaissance already! It's nowhere in sight.
I'm tempted to hit that down-arrow... but:
diff -u el-reg-articles white-hat-crap
- has not returned a request for comment on the matter,
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- moment. Namely, key rotation and internal public-private
+ moment. Namely, key turn and internal public-private
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Make sense?
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