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Great New Track by Becca Stevens and Michael League: Mirrors, "Over the Line"

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Nerdy Fish10/01/2021 4:30:05 pm PDT

re: #10 Charles Johnson

Ah, I missed that thread! Firefox seems to be maintaining its own certificate cache, but it will probably expire there too pretty soon.

Chrome isn’t the problem - Letsencrypt let their old root certificate expire and just installed a new one that relies on a new protocol that older devices don’t support. Apparently the possibility that they were causing chaos for many, many users never entered their heads.

Arguably, Firefox is the “problem” in that it is not reporting in a timely fashion when the root certificate expires. LetsEncrypt’s poorly thought-through decision is more of a contributing factor.