It seems our status.io notes are being misinterpreted as much more severe than they were intended to reflect.

Edit: Note that this was written in response to a previous submission title implying that Let's Encrypt was entirely down most of the day.

I wish Firefox would just give a mild warning for a recently expired certificate, instead of treating it the same as a true man-in-the-middle attach. It's not like someone who couldn't factor the private key in 200 days could in 201 days or even 300 days.

I'm convinced that we'd have better security, if we didn't have so much security theater. You'd think TLS is useless, from the warning my phone gives if I connected to a public Wi-Fi AP, but then again there's nothing in TLS (or WPA) that prevents it from being used in a way that is completely useless: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1si1y5lvkk

Requirements: free, available to everyone, automation friendly, issues certificates that are actually considered trustworthy by other parties.