Quote from: Red Emerald on September 29, 2012, 02:21:15 AM

Quote from: BkkCoins on September 29, 2012, 01:37:09 AM

Even someone with brief access to your laptop could simply run ssh-copy-id to some remote server they control.

ssh-copy-id transfers the public key. That is fine. Your public key can be public. It's the private key that you have to protect and often have encrypted.

You're right - I got turn around. It's someone adding a public key to your authorized_keys file that you would need to be wary of.