For all you LinkedIn users, have you noticed that you can’t login or re-authenticate? This is because the Security Certificate expired today.
www.linkedin.com uses an invalid security certificate.The certificate expired on 06/07/2008 08:53.
(Error code: sec_error_expired_certificate)
It’s easy to call the guys from LinkedIn, which has Got A Billion Dollar Valuation and collected 53 million in the last round of funding, stupid.
This is a business risk, to mitigate this a simple calender item could be created which alerts at least a week before expiration. Naturally it would be better to have your own PKI system with which you could easily create a new certificate rather than rely on an external vendor for new certificate creation. Although some provide the facility to create a new certificate online. To have anything expire on any day other than Mon-Thu, preferably round 12pm localtime is really really bad management.
Naughty LinkedIn!
technorati tags: business, risk, calendar, linkedin, networking, security, pki, certificate
Tags: business, calendar, certificate, linkedin, networking, pki, risk, security
July 6, 2008 at 4:53 pm |
In the words of the great Australian icon, Kylie Mole:
“How embarrassment!”
July 13, 2008 at 2:22 pm |
13th June , Still Same error
July 13, 2008 at 2:35 pm |
Nope, works fine for me…
September 5, 2008 at 7:56 am |
change ur computer date or time
year 2008!!! dats It…..
September 6, 2008 at 8:19 pm |
It’s always funny when somebody suggests circumvent an issue by compromising their own security and privacy.
July 6, 2009 at 6:26 pm |
Guess what, it’s expired again this year. I wish they’d prepare – they just had a year to prepare for this!
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