My mouse stopped working because logitech's certificate expired

Today my Logitech MX Master suddenly lost all its settings such scroll direction, shortcuts everything. I opened Logitech Options+ to fix it sometimes it happens but the app just hung on a loading screen.

After a while of not loading en restarting I looked it up and found a reddit thread with hundreds of people having the same issue. Turns out Logitech’s macOS developer certificate expired on january 6th (that is when the issue started). When that happened macOS refused to start the backend process and the app became useless. This affected everyone globally.

With that issue there seemed to be a workaround by setting the date back to before january 6th, which by itself is crazy. They eventually released a patched installer after 24h but there was no proactive communication. People spent hours troubleshooting before finding out it was a global issue.

What drives me crazy is how a mouse driver can fail like this alone by itself without me even changing anything. It just breaks. Why does my mouse need an app that can’t even start when a cert expires. The settings are probably stored locally, the app just couldn’t launch to apply them. it just bogels my mind.

Of course certificate expiration is completely predictable. Certs have expiration dates set months in advance. Any decent monitoring should catch this. You can test for it by setting your system date forward.

It is absolutely infuriating that their app can cripple hardware like this. If you are going to force an app down a users throat make sure it’s decently is maintained. The AI feature on the options app is stupid also. Absolute waste of CPU resources.

It’s just exhausting how everything needs to be online now.