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Re:Shortening the Let's Encrypt Chain of Trust by specialist on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @08:47AM (#36680213)
Isn't the EU advocating (or legislating) longer life spans for consumer electronics?

If so, I hope they're covering both hardware and software and configs.

That certs eventually expire is obvious to me now that someone raised the issue. But I wouldn't have foreseen the problem on my own. So I imagine policy makers will need to be informed too.

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Re:Shortening the Let's Encrypt Chain of Trust by theshrike79 on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @10:14AM (#36681277)
> Isn't the EU advocating (or legislating) longer life spans for consumer electronics?

Yes, there is legislation for this that mandates a number of OS updates and security updates. I'm hoping Android manufacturers will stop shovelling new SKUs and concentrate on a few they can actually keep up to date.

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