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Oopsie, Visual Studio License expired, so the build server stopped working (programming.dev)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Oh no, not just my build server, Microsofts build server... Everyones' Azure build server - (if you're building on windows)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

certificates fucking destroy everything in my work for an hour once every year because of expiry

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You are supposed to be tracking when they expire and then renew/replace them before they expire.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You are supposed to be tracking when they expire and then renew/replace them before they expire.

I've been told that, as well, but I'm not sure I see it... Seems like a lot of effort... (This is sarcasm. Or is it just too much honesty?)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Certs have existed a long time, are never implemented correctly, and the expiration cycle that is supposed to bolster security just causes pain as a result.

Certs should just be redesigned to have a kill switch. CRLs were supposed to handle that, but are rarely implemented or implemented correctly.

Certs are also used in so many places where they may not be suited to the task, but because they exist, they've become the de-facto standard.

A temporal expiration system seems flawed from the beginning anyway. What, you don't trust your system anymore just because time has passed? Time is always passing. Are we all secretly racist against clocks now?