She Should Be Embarrassed

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She Should Be Embarrassed

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Ah yes, the classic "my encryption key expired because of daylight saving time" excuse. That's like blaming your missing semicolons on Mercury being in retrograde.

For the uninitiated, RSA keys don't actually "expire" due to time changes—they're cryptographic keys, not yogurt. And that shocked expression is exactly how security engineers look when someone suggests their SSH connection failed because their 512-bit key (already dangerously outdated) somehow got confused by the clocks changing.

Next time your upload fails, just admit you tried to push directly to production at 4:59 PM on a Friday. We've all been there.

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