<p class="quote-inline">RE: <a href="https://hachyderm.io/@simontatham/117088511870432555" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hachyderm.io/@simontatham/1170</span><span class="invisible">88511870432555</span></a></p><p>In 2004, one of the servers used by the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/PuTTY" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PuTTY</span></a> team was subjected to an SSH MITM attack. I discussed it in a thread just now, but it deserves promoting to a top-level toot.</p><p>Those annoying host key prompts indicate some kind of mistake much more often than a real attack. But real attacks do happen. Check your host keys!</p>