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As reported by TechCrunch:
Someone at Oculus screwed up pretty badly today [Wednesday]: An expired certificate appears to have soft-bricked all of the company's Rift VR headsets, with users still unable to fire up software on the devices and no word of an incoming fix from the company yet.
Issues were first reported several hours ago on Reddit, where a post on the topic has already garnered hundreds of comments. The problem seems to have resulted from Oculus failing to update an expired certificate with the update, which is now leaving users with an error message saying that the system "Can't reach Oculus Runtime Service."
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Awkward! All of Oculus's Rift Headsets Have Stopped Working Due to an Expired Certificate
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 09 2018, @04:28AM
I haven't seen ANYONE propose a solution to the problem. You call yourself nerds?
I proposed this solution Wednesday evening:
1) Set up internal NTP server with wrong time. Point server infrastructure at NTP server. Servers now think certificate is good.
2) Compile client-side software that a) synchronizes client clock against Oculus NTP server so that client now thinks that certificate is good, and b) downloads and installs new certificate.
I heard this morning (Thursday) that Oculus had published a solution to customers.
I'm not saying I solved the problem but if I did it would be nice if Oculus cut me a check or helped me find work as a PKI administrator, seeing as I just saved their bacon.
~childo