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- Apple defends the role of Gatekeeper after users can’t open Mac apps
Posted by : Brij Bhushan
Monday 16 November 2020
Last week, Apple released the much-awaited macOS Big Sur update for everyone. While everyone rushed to get a new update, folks who didn’t update at that moment faced a peculiar problem: they couldn’t open their apps. It’s a frustrating situation when you rely on your computer for work, but can’t do anything because a server is messed up. That’s right, as developer Jeff Johnson noted, the issue was caused by Apple’s Online Certificate Service Protocol (OCSP) server crashed — largely due to many users downloading the new update simultaneously. The OCSP server is responsible for authenticating digital certificates of all…
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