Sysadmins rage over Apple’s ‘nightmarish’ SSL/TLS cert lifespan cuts

Maximum validity down from 398 days to 45 by 2027 Apple wants to shorten SSL/TLS security certificates' lifespans, down from 398 days now to just 45 days by 2027, and sysadmins have some very strong feelings about this "nightmarish" plan. …
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 A four-hour IT outage at a Veterans Affairs Medical Center has been blamed on a cat jumping on a technician's keyboard

"This is why I have a dog," the VA CIO told a conference call, according to our source

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 CERN swells storage space beyond 1EB for LHC's latest ion-whacking experiments https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/02/cern_storage_exabyte/

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In an article by Thorin Klosowski, EFF has urged folks to switch off several Privacy Sandbox settings in Google Chrome to mask their online habits, or to consider switching to Mozilla Firefox or Apple Safari, @0d6c6ac4 reports. https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/30/eff_chrome_google_sandbox/

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 Chinese snoops stole 60K State Department emails in that Microsoft email heist https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/28/chinese_hackers_stole_60000_state/

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 Yelp sues Texas for right to publish actual accurate abortion info https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/28/yelp_paxton_abortion/

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 OpenAI reinstates ChatGPT's internet browsing privileges https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/28/openai_reinstates_chatgpts_internet_privileges/

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 Teardown reveals iPhone 15 to be series of questionable design decisions https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/26/iphone_15_teardown/

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 China reportedly bans iPhones from more government offices https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/07/china_government_reportedly_bans_iphones/

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 Guy who ran Bitcoins4Less tells Feds he had less than zero laundering protections https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/06/bitcoin_exchange_guilty/

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