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All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert

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1318 points xvector | 1 comments | 04 May 19 01:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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needle0 ◴[04 May 19 01:56 UTC] No.19823806[source]▶
I’ll still keep using Firefox since I recognize the importance of browser diversity and the hazards of a Chrome monoculture (that and vertical tabs), but, yikes.

Still, this type of oversight seems all too common even in large companies. I remember several cases from Fortune 500 companies in the past few years alone. What would be a good way to automate checking for them? Has anyone developed a tool designed specifically to avoid certificate expiry disasters?

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crazygringo ◴[04 May 19 02:01 UTC] No.19823829[source]▶
That's a great question.

I've never seen a bulletproof solution for organizational tasks that need to be done yearly.

If someone's in charge... and both they and their manager happen to leave in the same year... and whatever system they had in place to remember (probably their personal calendars) is gone... and the manager's manager has 1,000 other things to remember...

...how does an organization ensure the task still gets done?

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1. darrenf ◴[04 May 19 06:02 UTC] No.19824734[source]▶
Surely tasks are performed by and assigned to roles, not individuals (who just happen to be in those roles at some moment in time). If a role disappears, e.g. in redundancy, then the role's tasks are evaluated for either transfer to a role that remains, or being discarded.