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An Internet of Trouble lies ahead as root certificates begin to expire en masse, warns security researcher

Steve Davies 3 Silver badge
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Lawyers... start your engines

There will be a lot of people with some very expensive kit that has borked itself because of this issue. They will sue, sue and sue until they get a solution.

A lot of companies are walking blind into this mess. Some really don't give a F**k. They have your money and good luck trying to get any support.

If this gets bad enough the Politicians (who it seems are mostly Lawyers or PPE grads these days) will get involved which will only make things worse.

An awful lot of this kit is never connected to the interwebs so I'd like someone to explain why it needs security certificates in the first place.

OTOH, this is a disaster by design and as other comments have said this is all to get you to buy more stuff which will more than likely have even an even shorter lifespan before the same thing happens again.

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