it has been 0️⃣ days since the definitionally 100% foreseeable event of a certificate expiration caused a minor disaster
if your logitech mouse stopped working today on macintosh, you need to manually download and install a fix for the dead certificate. https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/07/logitech-certificate-breaks-macos-apps/
@0xabad1dea so Apple is holding your macOS software hostage?
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The Developer ID certificate is the digital signature macOS uses to verify legitimate software. When Logitech allowed its certificate to lapse, the company's apps lost verified authenticity. As such, macOS refused to run them...
@emaksovalec Madness. Just madness! So when a Macintosh software vendor goes out of business, before long all of their software becomes unusable because a company that's gone out of business won't be renewing its certificates? Not just that it stops being updated, and might become incompatible with a future OS version or a phone-home license check fails so the *software* balks, but the OS actively prevents you from running the stuff you already *have* installed!?
Madness, I say!
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@mkj @emaksovalec @0xabad1dea yup, both Apple and Google will kick you out of their app stores unless you change a magic number and resubmit every year or so. Keep working for existing users on their current devices at least for a while after that
