Logitech users on macOS found themselves locked out of their mouse customizations yesterday after the company let a security certificate expire, breaking both its Logi Options+ and G HUB configuration apps. Logitech devices like its MX Master series mice and MX Keys keyboards stopped working properly as a result of the oversight, with users unable to access their custom scrolling setup, button mappings, and gestures.
As if constantly pushing more AI slop into their software while making no real improvements wasn’t enough…
The Developer ID certificate is the digital signature macOS uses to verify legitimate software. The certificate that Logitech allowed to lapse was being used to secure inter-process communications, which resulted in the software not being able to start successfully, in some cases leading to an endless boot loop.
This is 100% on Apple users for letting a company decide what their computer can and can’t run. And then brag about its security like it has some super special zero trust architecture and is not just a walled garden with a single point of failure dependent on opaque decision making criteria for what code should be “allowed” to run on the system.
Key and signature based security model does not prove if it’s safe, it proves if it’s approved. They’re not the same.
Macs don’t get malware. Unless it’s malware Apple approves, those are called apps.
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This is 100% on Apple users for letting a company decide what their computer can and can’t run. And then brag about its security like it has some super special zero trust architecture and is not just a walled garden with a single point of failure dependent on opaque decision making criteria for what code should be “allowed” to run on the system.
Key and signature based security model does not prove if it’s safe, it proves if it’s approved. They’re not the same.
Macs don’t get malware. Unless it’s malware Apple approves, those are called apps.
There are viruses for mac, but they are paid.