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> “It suddenly stopped working, and no one knows why.”

Based on the screenshots I’m going to hazard a guess that it’s because someone forgot to update, or just stopped paying for, the server license.

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If these apps were entirely local nobody'd care.

The insistence they go through a server is why they suck

So many things rely on date bound certificates now that local doesn't assure continued operation, see the recent Mac Office 2019 stories. I feel like there are so many of these ticking time bombs that expired cert based software failures are going to become a much more common issue.

Valid concern, yet a potentially solved problem. For code signing at least. Chexk out Time Stamping.

More info: https://sslinsights.com/code-signing-time-stamping/

Or a key employee who was handling that died, quit, or was fired.

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