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16 | 16 | | - The old version of the tool had a time bomb in it - an expiring SSL certificate - that rendered the app |
17 | 17 | | unusable sometime around September 2022. Only through great effort internally were we able to periodically renew |
18 | 18 | | this certificate and republish the app, and the app was architected in such a way that excising the signing |
19 | | - | certificate check was more work than just rewriting the whole thing. Furthermore, the app wouldn't even launch |
20 | | - | on my Win11 or Server 2022 systems. It would just silently crash and log an event to the Windows event log. I felt |
21 | | - | this was a pretty unprofessional state to leave it in. |
| 19 | + | certificate check was more work than just rewriting the whole thing. (I know about the Sirona DLL hack, but still.) |
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23 | 21 | | - The old tool had no active maintainers and no one who was still around was familiar with the app's internals or source code. |
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