Let's Encrypt is forced to revoke customer certificates, the big change coming to FreeNAS, and the trick to running Android on an iPhone.

Plus our concerns about Debian's future, and the unfixable Intel flaw announced this week.

Links:

• Let’s Encrypt discovers CAA bug, must revoke customer certificates — On Leap Day, Let's Encrypt announced that it had discovered a bug in its CAA (Certification Authority Authorization) code.
• Let’s Encrypt changes course on certificate revocation — Administrators are getting a little more time to replace affected certificates.
• Check code loop blunder strikes
• Let's Encrypt Has Issued a Billion Certificates
• 2020.02.29 CAA Rechecking Bug
• Revoking certain certificates on March 4
• 5 years of Intel CPUs and chipsets have a concerning flaw that’s unfixable — Converged Security and Management Engine flaw may jeopardize Intel's root of trust.
• New AMD Side Channel Attacks Discovered, Impacts Zen Architecture
• Opposite of a Platform for DPL 2020 — I hope to be DPL again some year, but 2020 is the wrong year for me and for the project. So I will not nominate myself this year, but hope to do so some future year.
• DPL elections 2019, congratulations Sam Hartman! — The Debian Project Leader elections just finished and the winner is Sam Hartman!
• Bits from the DPL For December 2019
• systemd v245 released, with homed stuff — A small new service systemd-homed.service has been added, that may be