Even Google Makes Mistakes – Expired SSL

5th March 2008

I guess no matter who you are, it’s easy to forget about the small stuff -Like renewing your SSL certificate to safely collect millions of dollars hourly…

I tried to log into a Google Adwords account today, and this is what I saw -

An expired security certificate. It showed up in both Firefox and Internet Explorer, so I grabbed a couple of screen shots…

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3 Responses to “Even Google Makes Mistakes – Expired SSL”

March 6th, 2008 at 8:18 am - Simon M Skinner Says:

Now THAT is hilarious Scott!
Nicely detected!
March 6th, 2008 at 9:18 am - Jerry West Says:

Nice find Scott. I’d love to make a joke about this, but a couple of years ago I let my main domain expire, and I lost some big money … but it is great to see that it isn’t only me that makes dumb a$$ mistakes. Google does too. And that just makes me feel good.
March 6th, 2008 at 9:30 am - Even Google Makes “Dumb Ass” Mistakes Too… Says:

[...] Scott Hendison, over at PDXTC reported that Google’s secured certificate expired. While it would great to start with the jokes, we’ve all make “dumb ass” mistakes from time to time, like when I let my main domain Web Marketing Now expire a few years ago. It just happens. [...]