It's entertaining when you try and visit a CyberSecurity company website and it's blocked because it uses an invalid security certificate.<\/p>
Why is this becoming an issue? Because Mozilla are removing trust bits for really old CAs. So there are a few CAs that are starting to drop out of the list of trusted CAs that Mozilla publish, and that propagates through to distributions as explained on the Mozilla wiki.<\/p>
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