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One small note on your mention of MacOS, and I don't know if this has been fixed. A couple of years ago, the certificates expired on some versions of the OS ins
by michrassena 7y ago
One small note on your mention of MacOS, and I don't know if this has been fixed. A couple of years ago, the certificates expired on some versions of the OS installer, like El Capitan and could no longer be verified. While there's the simple workaround of changing the clock, it did give me pause when trying to get an old Mac upgraded to the latest supported operating system.
- SyneRyder 7y agoOn a similar note, I remember when Apple had a similar outage in the App Store [1], and a lot of my App Store bought software stopped working, claiming to be damaged. The workaround was to re-download the software again from the App Store, but because Apple doesn't let you download old versions, some of the apps had since updated to a newer macOS version than my machine could handle & I couldn't download them with the new certificates. Some of the smaller indie developers were gracious enough to send me non-signed non-App Store builds that I could keep using, but I did lose some software I'd bought. I haven't bought from the App Store ever since. Considering Mozilla's certificate failure, Apple's cert failure, and the number of websites I encounter that have forgotten to renew their certificates, it seems like a broken system. Or a really effective form of DRM, I'm not sure which. [1] https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7336980 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7336980