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Re:Automate Public Certificates Lifecycle Management via RFC... by kerng on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @11:52AM (#31004315)
And the risk that Google AI decides you are not worthy, your account is deactivated and you loose access to this in the same second.

Centralization with no accountability besides blaming things on AI is problematic.

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Re:Automate Public Certificates Lifecycle Management via RFC... by Spivak on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @12:11PM (#31004587)
I mean sure but you have an account with Let's Encrypt too which can be arbitrarily banned. LE has even less accountability.
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Re:Automate Public Certificates Lifecycle Management via RFC... by kerng on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @04:29PM (#31007860)
Fair point, but it wouldn't be banned because of some other unrelated activity. Much more isolated implications that way.
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