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Re:Let's Encrypt: 64-Day Certificate Lifetimes Coming Feb 2027 by CamperBob2 on Thursday October 08, 2026 @02:32PM (#50009967)
Because while the Internet and subsequently the WWW was conceived as a medium where all peers were treated equally and no centralized gatekeepers were required, this policy was widely viewed to be a Bad Idea in retrospect, treated as a bug, and fixed accordingly.
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Re:Let's Encrypt: 64-Day Certificate Lifetimes Coming Feb 2027 by pixl97 on Thursday October 08, 2026 @02:45PM (#50010188)
Here's the thing, you can write your own applications and security to do anything you want. There is no gun being pointed at you to stop you, at least on PC.

Now, if you want to play with the world at large that's been dealing with security issue after security issue then you play by those rules.

You can't come to my game then get mad when I have a set of rules you don't like.

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Re:Let's Encrypt: 64-Day Certificate Lifetimes Coming Feb 2027 by CamperBob2 on Thursday October 08, 2026 @03:08PM (#50010522)
my game
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Re:Let's Encrypt: 64-Day Certificate Lifetimes Coming Feb 2027 by pixl97 on Thursday October 08, 2026 @05:00PM (#50012195)
Right, set up your own game table and you get to make the rules.

That or either get a democracy to agree with you and vote, or become a dictator.

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