User criticizes Google's certificate authority and perceived hypocrisy on TLS warnings
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All dough, no crust. Filling but forgettable.
Summary
A frustrated user rants about receiving an email from Google Cloud Platform about TLS certificate updates using Google Trust Services (WE1). The author expresses anger at the irony of Google warning users daily about non-TLS local servers while simultaneously asking them to trust certificates from a previously unknown "Google Trust Services" entity. The tone is sarcastic and dismissive of Google's claimed efficiency improvements.
Key quotes
· 4 pulled[email protected] said to me just now: '... to improve efficiency, we will be updating the TLS certificate for many Google endpoints.... will shift to using Google Trust Services WE1...'
Google has a company called 'Trust Services'? and they (Google Cloud Platform) want me to trust the certificates they (Google Trust Services) issue?
And they also warn me in their browser, EVERY FUCKING DAY to not trust this non-TLS, plain old http server in my own local rack?
Get a dog up ya, #Google.
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