Logitech users on macOS found themselves locked out of their mouse customizations yesterday after the company let a security certificate expire, breaking both its Logi Options+ and G HUB configuration apps. Logitech devices like its MX Master series mice and MX Keys keyboards stopped working properly as a result of the oversight, with users unable to access their custom scrolling setup, button mappings, and gestures.
Expired certs are a telling indicator of workplace chaos. This happens when good developers are replaced with much cheaper contractors, and all the shit the original devs did on the side gets lost.
It’s not the contractors’ fault. It’s short-sighted management that piss off good workers who can choose where they want to work.
On the Mac, an expired cert should prevent new installations by default, but for existing installs it shouldn’t have had any effect. Logitech did something wonky here that prevented existing driver installs from working at all.
I mean, most software signatures use a time server to sign then, so as long a s the cert was valid when it was signed and isn’t revoked, should still be valid.
Expired certs are a telling indicator of workplace chaos. This happens when good developers are replaced with much cheaper contractors, and all the shit the original devs did on the side gets lost.
It’s not the contractors’ fault. It’s short-sighted management that piss off good workers who can choose where they want to work.
On the Mac, an expired cert should prevent new installations by default, but for existing installs it shouldn’t have had any effect. Logitech did something wonky here that prevented existing driver installs from working at all.
💯 this. Logitech’s malware isn’t as harmful on macos as on windows, but by god they’re trying
I mean, most software signatures use a time server to sign then, so as long a s the cert was valid when it was signed and isn’t revoked, should still be valid.