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2021-09-17, 16:17

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Originally Posted by turtle View Post
That would leave him to be dead up to five years before the cert expires though. Not a very timely dead man's switch.
Nope. Max cert length that most browsers accept is now roughly one year. You can still buy for multiple, but they’ll simply issue you another one a year down the road.

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The error you see is something you should be concerned about normally.
Ostensibly. In practice, the times I’ve seen where a cert warning was an actual case of identity fraud is probably zero or close to that. The times I’ve seen very warnings where someone forgot to fix their cert? Many (including sometimes from big corps like MS).
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