Chinese dev jailed and fined for posting DJI's private keys on GitHub(theregister.co.uk)

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Chinese dev jailed and fined for posting DJI's private keys on GitHub

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/30/dji_dev_jailed_fined_leaking_aes_ssl_keys_github/

7 comments

"A Chinese software developer who previously expressed suicidal thoughts has been jailed after putting one of drone company DJI's AES private keys onto Github in plain text."

What are AES private keys? Does this mean there's AES public keys? When did AES become a public key crypto system?

taneq7 anni fa

Just think, journalists get everything this wrong, not just things that you know a lot about.

http://harmful.cat-v.org/journalism/gell-mann-amnesia-effect

andygates7 anni fa

The Reg is unusually bad, though. When they can't get plain science or tech right, it's time to not read them any more.

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tannerwj7 anni fa

It was probably just the shared secret, but private key sounds more techy.

kkarakk7 anni fa

yup that's how i'd imagine that'd go. nice insight into DJI's dev practices, any happless shmuck can access their keys and accidentally upload them to github(i know i've done that accidentally for my personal projects)

genai7 anni fa

Crikey