Assuming they were using best practices and something like LetsEncrypt (unlikely) or even a larger outfit that implements ACME (do those even exist yet?).
No, more likely, there's a sysadmin somewhere that's furloughed, has the reminders in his inbox, and has to kick off an arduous procurement process involving three layers of bureaucratic horseshit involving five signoffs each, and at least a 60 day window before Verisign nee Symantec gets paid an exhorbitant amount of money and issues the all important bit of code.
No doubt this is exaggerated, but I firmly believe that government/large enterprise procurement is one of the levels of hell. Take something that should be a simple, five minute process and stack layers upon layers of nonsense on top.
Karunamon|7 years ago
No, more likely, there's a sysadmin somewhere that's furloughed, has the reminders in his inbox, and has to kick off an arduous procurement process involving three layers of bureaucratic horseshit involving five signoffs each, and at least a 60 day window before Verisign nee Symantec gets paid an exhorbitant amount of money and issues the all important bit of code.
No doubt this is exaggerated, but I firmly believe that government/large enterprise procurement is one of the levels of hell. Take something that should be a simple, five minute process and stack layers upon layers of nonsense on top.