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O2 network restored after Ericsson software outage left millions without 4G data access
O2 has blamed a global software problem for a network outage that has left frustrated customers without access to the internet and 4G services.
Mobile network O2 says its services have been restored after a technical fault left millions of customers unable to get online. The company said it would be closely monitoring data services over the coming days and promised to carry out a review to understand what went wrong. British customers reported not being able to use mobile data to access the internet and the operator's network on Thursday after disruption began at about 5am.
takyon: The problem was due to an expired software certificate.
Also at BBC, The Guardian, Forbes.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 07 2018, @09:49PM (1 child)
ssl cert expiration as no relationship to the openness of the software using the cert
(Score: 2) by edIII on Saturday December 08 2018, @02:22AM
Where does it mention SSL anywhere in the TFA? It says specifically software certificate. I would imagine those are revocable and controllable by Ericsson. Not every certificate is specifically for SSL. If using SSL, it's not impossible to effect such a system when in control of your own CA. It's not like SSL isn't setup to process revocation either (although it specifically says expired).
If the problem really was the software phoning home to a cluster of services with an expired cert, than I agree with you. If it's not SSL, or if their certs were being used differently, then there is something else going on. The TFA still doesn't mention SSL.
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