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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:Lets encrypt by sycodon · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The internet has become one giant Rube Goldberg machine. Way too many parts and dependencies.

    No, I don't have an alternative, but that's not a requirement to point out that the web seems pretty fragile.

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  2. Re:I doubt it by gstoddart · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Honestly, Microsoft has let the domain for Hotmail expire. In fact, they've done it more than once.

    Never underestimate the human capacity to fuck something up.

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  3. Re:Obligatory XKCD by snowgirl · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You've likely heard of Memegen, the internal Google meme forum?

    Yeah, that comic is a template, and regularly gets rolled out for random things that we were told to focus on... like "self-driving cars" or "nest" or "ionosphere skydiving VPs"

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  4. Google has been degrading rapidly. by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    wonkey_monkey, I'm guessing you are actually wonkey_human.

    Yes, I think I have an explanation. Google has been degrading rapidly. More and more Google is out of control. To me, that is very sad. For years, Google was an amazingly excellent company.

    The Google traffic map near Portland, Oregon shows traffic accidents in Seattle, 3 hours away. The design of the text in the upper left corner of Google maps is very poor.

    There are many other issues of that nature.

  5. Re:Obligatory XKCD by ralphsiegler · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That 8 stuff is for young-un's, we old timers love our 4.2.2.2 Originally BBN Planet 's DNS server in 1994, now owned by Level 3