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I wish everyone checked their authorized_keys file like you do. Sadly, this is rarely the case across the board, based on my experience. People are lazy. There are good aspects of being lazy, but this is one of the sub-optimal cases.

In summary, this methodology would not likely be detected even in places where folks and admins are quite vigilant. The behavior and usage is expected. If I were unethical, I could gain access to thousands of companies by simply emailing a link to github and saying, "This script is giving me errors, what am I doing wrong?" Using the default settings in ssh an sudo, I can access all of their systems with no syslog entries and gain root to anything they have sudo on.




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