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andromeduck on Sept 24, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Upgrade your SSH keys

But can't they also just find the hosts by looking at your bash history?

toyg on Sept 24, 2016 [–]

Bash history rotates (or can be managed, which a lot of people do), whereas known_hosts will have every server you ever accessed and is rarely ever touched.

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