If the answer to why you should do business with somebody is ever “we’re part of the same group, you can trust me,” then you know you can’t. Honest players don’t need to resort to that.

A horribly embarrassing software disaster happened on Monday. It was caused by a bad certificate, which is a mechanism used to verify and authenticate a software service. As big as it was, I doubt anybody will lose their job over the Microsoft Teams outage even though it had an impact on millions of paying customers….