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Google Let Root Certificate For Gmail Expire

Posted by Soulskill on from the happens-to-the-best-of-us dept.

Gr8Apes writes: The certificate for Google's intermediate certificate authority expired Saturday. The certificate was used to issue Gmail's certificate for SMTP, and the expiration at 11:55am EDT caused many e-mail clients to stop receiving Gmail messages. While the problem affected most Gmail users using PC and mobile mail clients, Web access to Gmail was unaffected. I guess Google Calendar failed to notify someone.

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  1. Re:Lol by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah I only use Tinder for all my communication.

  2. Obligatory XKCD by avgjoe62 · · Score: 5, Funny

    This seems so prophetic now:

    Obligatory XKCD Link

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    How come Slashdot never gets Slashdotted?

    1. Re:Obligatory XKCD by X0563511 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Man, 8.8.4.4 never gets any love.

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  3. LOL ... by gstoddart · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am GRoot.

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  4. Re:And the layman's translation is what again? by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 4, Funny

    As much as I like to take issue when a summary truly is unenlightening and makes unreasonable expectations of readers, I don't think this is such a case. Slashdot isn't a general news site, and does have a specific target readership, the vast majority of which are going to know what a certificate is and what SMTP is.

    And anyway, whose mother? Some mothers would need the meaning of "ISP" spelled out for them over several sentences. Some mothers don't have even a vague grasp of what the internet is. Where do you draw the line?

    At least it wouldn't be over the head of this mom.

    * How does this [-] a normal user?
    * What can they [-] or not do now?
    * What do they have [-] watch out for?

    Blimey, if you want to talk about clarity...

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