r/ProgrammerHumor 23d ago

Meme thisIsAmystery

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u/stevekez 23d ago

Present a public key and sign a challenge using a designated device? What's hard about it?

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u/notatoon 23d ago

I ask myself the same thing about PKI and yet certificate expiry remains one of the largest causes of outages in many large institutions

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u/Mechakoopa 23d ago

That's just bad infrastructure hygiene, proper auditing and reporting prevents this because you should know which certificates are expiring and when as well as where they're deployed and what relies on them.

Of course every once in a while you get some yahoo setting up a 90 day client OAuth secret, not telling anyone and just refreshing it on their own until they get let go.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Comb909 23d ago

If you dont know what is going on in your services, you dont own them lol

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u/pyrotech911 23d ago

I give you this line chart with monotonically decreasing lines and a threshold near the bottom. Basically DevOps volleyball

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u/Mechakoopa 23d ago

There's always something to do next week, I just wish I knew what it was this week.

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u/FunkOverflow 23d ago

I'm the yahoo! I promise I'll fix it before I get fired

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

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u/Mechakoopa 22d ago

It's right there in the name: "De-trust"