So I’m trying to upgrade my Ansible server to the newest OpenBSD snapshot, which involves working at the console. I go to my virtual server control panel, click on the link to the Java applet, and get told that Java won’t run this application.
Turns out that Java has trusted self-signed certificates for applications until now, relying on blacklists rather than whitelists. I simultaneously applaud this move away from enumerating badness and condemn them for temporarily inconveniencing me.
To whi...
Published on January 17, 2014 07:30