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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Pease tell me you know of someone where this actually was true: that they made crazy money and they’re set for life.

    Because, based on 30 years in and a complete lack of knowledge of anyone who got out and retired early, either personally and via someone I know, I conclude the only people for whom this worked were C-level. Even the smartest man I know didn’t cash in and get out.

    I do know someone who retired at 48, though. He was a heavy duty mechanic. Paid off his house in a town he chose specifically for location, and bikes and kite-surfs all summer and skis all winter.

    Yeah, mechanic. Union. Half pay for life is still half pay, but it’s FOR LIFE. He won.


















  • End users should start getting used to that expired certificate warning in their browser of choice and the process to tell it to continue to the site anyway.

    We already have a lot of this, and it’s definitely gonna get worse. Is a security dance so convoluted that people are used to others just messing up really an effective process?

    Given the biggest breaches were caused by default passwords and misconfigured S3 outhouses, are we focusing on the right stuff today?



  • manual renewals with Digicert has been a pain in the ass. If anyone has experience with their automated option I’d love to hear it.

    Aren’t they RFC8555-compatible?

    Yep, seems so:

    ACME Directory URLs – Get certificate-level automation for Extended Validation (EV) and Organization Validated (OV) certificates. Manage multiple ACME clients, running on Windows or Linux so you can efficiently automate certificate delivery regardless of the quantity of certificates you’re managing. Improve the security of using ACME in your network through our CertCentral discovery sensors. The sensor is an extra layer of security, ensuring the ACME client doesn’t directly speak to an unsecure third party.

    If you search for RFC8555 or ACME, you may find a tool you can use that may be compatible for renewing Digicert certs automatically.

    I’d love to actually help, but honestly I knew the RFC offhand (correction; I was close but off) and googled the rest myself, so dragging the problem to ACME - like RFK dragging the carcass of a deer back to his sedan - is the best I can do for you today.