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needle0 ◴[] 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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revvx ◴[] No.19823994[source]
> Still, this type of oversight seems all too common even in large companies. (...) Has anyone developed a tool designed specifically to avoid certificate expiry disasters?

LetsEncrypt renewal is supposed to be automated. [1]

I know of a company that hosted blogs for thousands of customers. They used LetsEncrypt, but the CTO considered automatic renewals a possible security risk, so they did it manually. Problem is, the expiration happened in a weekend and they "forgot" to update the certificates before that. Suffice to say that the next Monday wasn't pleasant. They automated after that.

[1] https://letsencrypt.org/about/

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1. magicalhippo ◴[] No.19825434[source]
Then the automatic update process stops for some reason and your certificate expires...

At the end of the day, someone needs to verify that new certificates gets acquired and installed before the old ones expire. Automation makes acquiring them less tedious, but not much for making sure someone pays attention.