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This means that when the model is obselete and unsupported that the camera is guaranteed stop functioning? Is this a security trade-off or planned obsolescence?

• dagmx 3y ago
  Security trade off likely due to driver certificate expiration . Drivers for the camera exist outside the core OS, so need to be verifiable otherwise you could have malware replacing it. If Microsoft forget to update the certificate, it’ll eventually stop working.
  • bigmadwolf 3y ago
    An expired certificate should not cause that. I'd be very surprised if they did not have a cryptographic timestamp [1] on the driver signature. The presence of the timestamp allows the signature to be verified after the signing certificate has expired. 1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_signing#Time-stamping https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_signing#Time-stamping
    • bigmadwolf 3y ago
      OK upon actually reading the article it looks like they didn't include a timestamp - ouch.