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Lots of bad things happen if your front-end is compromised, that's different and it's a high bar. They can persist access with a backdoor. They can exfil historical data, password hashes. They can corrupt and modify data.

With HTTPS certs you usually have at most 90 days of impact when a key is leaked (less if you revoke and software is checking CRL). GitHub used the same RSA key for over a decade, they may have continued using this key for quite some time more had they not noticed the leak this week.



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