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Re:All of Oculus’s Rift headsets have stopped working due to... by sebazzz on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @03:16PM (#16539433)
< They let their certificate expire, essentially bricking all of their devices.

This also suggests that if the decide they stop supporting it, eventually the software will stop working due to these certificate errors for which will then there be no fix.

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Re:All of Oculus’s Rift headsets have stopped working due to... by IncRnd on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @11:00PM (#16542185)
It may appear to suggest that, but it doesn't. These are code signing certificates not TLS. The certificate isn't for the executable but for the ability to sign an executable. If you update an executable with a new executable that was signed with a certificate that was expired at the time of signing, then you will encounter the issue.
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