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Re:Some American Airlines planes are grounded because the pi... by k-mcgrady on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @09:08AM (#9457968)
I hope there isn't a guy sitting somewhere who accidentally rejected the certificate :) I think that also locks everyone out. If the iPad's all crashed though it seems unlikely. Although it's definitely something that could be easily missed.
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Re:Some American Airlines planes are grounded because the pi... by 0x0 on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @09:11AM (#9457989)
Ah, but when you read stories like this, I wouldn't trust the reporter (or even the interviewee) to be 100% accurate. "All crashed" could mean anything from a dead battery to being PIN locked to failure to launch because of an expired code signing cert :P
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Re:Some American Airlines planes are grounded because the pi... by k-mcgrady on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @09:14AM (#9458009)
Good point and definitely possible. In fact I've done it myself - switched computer rejected the old certificate and suddenly nobody could access the app. Fortunately at the time it was only a few people and a beta so not too big of a problem.
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