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.
As if constantly pushing more AI slop into their software while making no real improvements wasn’t enough…
Reading the article, I don’t see how AI code was the fault in this situation. They let a developer certificate lapse without renewing it, so actually seems more like a process or human error; either their systems didn’t flag for upcoming renewal sufficiently or the alert was ignored or missed.
It’s more that it’s indicative of the engineering culture at Logitech. Business bros cry for more useless features and don’t allow any time for infrastructure or technical debt. An unautomated cert like this (or no teams who monitor it) just screams process failure and lack of business allocation of engineering resources.
I don’t think the point was about AI code. Rather it’s commentary about Logitech’s priorities. There’s quite a fair bit of AI features that pop up when one runs the Logi Options software. Instead of jamming AI stuff into it, they should focus on the more core functionality of their products such as not letting this certificate expire in the first place.
I use a Logitech MX Master 2S and 3S on my Fedora 43 machines using Solaar! Works better than on my legacy Mac OS builds that use legacy version of Logi Options+
All MX master keys are recognized on Linux, but there aren’t many extra keys, I don’t think the official software lets you create macros either.
In any case, you usually don’t need hardware-specific software to create macros on Linux because there are ways to remap keys and actions that are independent to the hardware used.
there are ways to remap keys and actions that are independent to the hardware used.
As I’ve been trying for days to get my logi mouse macros to work the same as it did in windows, I can say that’s not true, or I’ve somehow missed the easy ways to do it.
The best I’ve come up with is to remap one key to a keyboard key that activates a separate autoclicker program, which is clunky and suboptimal to say the least.
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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.
Reading the article, I don’t see how AI code was the fault in this situation. They let a developer certificate lapse without renewing it, so actually seems more like a process or human error; either their systems didn’t flag for upcoming renewal sufficiently or the alert was ignored or missed.
It’s more that it’s indicative of the engineering culture at Logitech. Business bros cry for more useless features and don’t allow any time for infrastructure or technical debt. An unautomated cert like this (or no teams who monitor it) just screams process failure and lack of business allocation of engineering resources.
I don’t think the point was about AI code. Rather it’s commentary about Logitech’s priorities. There’s quite a fair bit of AI features that pop up when one runs the Logi Options software. Instead of jamming AI stuff into it, they should focus on the more core functionality of their products such as not letting this certificate expire in the first place.
What mouse brand has a product similar to the MX Master that also works well in Linux?
I use a Logitech MX Master 2S and 3S on my Fedora 43 machines using Solaar! Works better than on my legacy Mac OS builds that use legacy version of Logi Options+
Keychron M6.
The MX Master is great on linux if you install Solaar
https://ploopy.co/mouse/ maybe
This looks very cool!
Idk any mouse that won’t work on Linux, but my next one will probably be a keychron
“Works well” = Can be fully utilized (macro keys, etc) without garbage proprietary software.
All MX master keys are recognized on Linux, but there aren’t many extra keys, I don’t think the official software lets you create macros either.
In any case, you usually don’t need hardware-specific software to create macros on Linux because there are ways to remap keys and actions that are independent to the hardware used.
As I’ve been trying for days to get my logi mouse macros to work the same as it did in windows, I can say that’s not true, or I’ve somehow missed the easy ways to do it.
The best I’ve come up with is to remap one key to a keyboard key that activates a separate autoclicker program, which is clunky and suboptimal to say the least.
Yeah. My MX Master works on Linux, but sometimes the side buttons stop working.
I’ve heard good things about the Keychron mice. I’ll have to take a look. I think they have one that is very similar to the MX Master.