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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: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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  3. 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